Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Fri, 7 Feb 92 15:26 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA27662; Fri, 7 Feb 92 10:29:16 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA15607; Fri, 7 Feb 92 09:25:25 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA22741; Fri, 7 Feb 92 09:25:31 EST Message-Id: <9202071425.AA22741@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 5399; Fri, 07 Feb 92 09:24:01 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 3335; Fri, 07 Feb 92 09:23:29 EST Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1992 09:22:51 EST Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" Sender: Lojban list From: "Mark E. Shoulson" Subject: Nitpick X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: David Cortesi's message of Thu, 6 Feb 1992 12:18:41 -0800 Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Fri Feb 7 15:26:13 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN >Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 12:18:41 -0800 >From: David Cortesi One good nit-pick deserves another. >.i mi ckire do zu'o do ciksi le piro rafsi zo du >.i ra'unai mi bacru le mi secmene ta'i lu la deiv. korteizis. li'u The first sentence is ungrammatical. You have two selbri. it should be {mi ckire do lezu'o do ciksi ...li'osa'a}. You need the "le" to make it a sumti. I'm also not sure of the semantics of {le piro rafsi zo du}, but I *do* know that it has to be something like {ro rafsi *be* zo du}--you mean the rafsi of "du", as you have it, he explains all the rafsi _to_ the word "du". Second sentence also has trouble: {le se cmene} is the _thing named_, not the name. The name is {le cmene}. And maybe drop the {la} inside the quotes, since you're saying the name, not "that called...". I guess you can argue for keeping the {se cmene} as well as the {la}, but that seems hopelessly confusing semantically. co'omi'e mi ((tm) Nick)