Return-Path: Message-Id: <9205211534.AA10050@relay1.UU.NET> Date: Thu May 21 11:37:48 1992 Reply-To: CJ FINE Sender: Lojban list From: CJ FINE Subject: "nei" X-To: Bob Le Chevalier X-Cc: Lojban list To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Thu May 21 11:37:48 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN I am strongly in favour of making the change you suggest. The relearning affects the su'eso'oje'i caca'a jbosku, while the gain in regularity (which I value more than the gain in expressiveness in this case) will aid the so'i.a'o ba jbosku. I have learned "nei", as I have made the effort to learn all the cmavo (I think I've got about 95%), but have never had occasion to use it. Further, the main place where this will give problems is in attitudinals, and I suspect that only the Tuesday night group are ba'e speaking enough for this to be a problem. Certainly, though I use attitudinals in my translations, few of them, and no negated ones, come readily to my mind. I do not regard as a defect a structure which, while otherwise regular, allows expressions that we cannot at present comprehend. kolin