From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMB.BITNET!LOJBAN Mon Jul 6 00:40:41 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Mon, 6 Jul 92 00:40 EDT Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA23601; Mon, 6 Jul 92 00:42:50 EDT Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA04676; Mon, 6 Jul 92 00:22:43 -0400 Message-Id: <9207060422.AA04676@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3091; Mon, 06 Jul 92 00:22:11 EDT Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 ptf033) id 7186; Mon, 06 Jul 92 00:04:30 EDT Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1992 00:04:23 BST Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski Sender: Lojban list From: Ivan A Derzhanski Subject: Wallops #8 To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: CJ FINE's message of Thu, 2 Jul 1992 15:11:30 BST <13271.9207022031@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Status: RO > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1992 15:11:30 BST > From: CJ FINE > > Comments on Nick's > > > > A Greek folk tale. > > .i le kakpa cu me cai ba'e > > mi sa'e > > I am suspicious of bare "cai": "strong emotion, but I'm not > telling you which one" It seems to me that Nick intends {cai} to modify {me}, not a null attitudinal. Unfortunately, I think that {cai} can only go with UI. > > cu .e'u klama ca le cermurse > > I can't find "murse" in my gi'uste, nor can I guess what it's supposed > to be. It is a new word meaning `twilight'. > > ni'o ca le bavlamdei ke clira clira > Unlike Mark, I like this a lot. I don't. > I also celebrate the adoption of a very > widespread, but almost completely un-European, speech pattern. Would you also welcome reduplication to indicate plurality? Ivan