From LOJBAN%CUVMB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:51:37 2010 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 5 May 1993 15:49:33 -0400 Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4848; Wed, 05 May 93 15:48:52 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 5032; Wed, 05 May 93 13:51:27 EST Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 10:57:25 -0400 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: TECH: experimental cmavo "xo'e" X-To: Lojban List To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: <9305051407.AA03216@relay1.UU.NET> from "Colin Fine" at May 5, 93 02:09:30 pm X-From-Space-Date: Wed May 5 06:57:25 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Message-ID: la kolin. cusku di'e > My objection to xo'e is that people will treat it as a purely > grammatical manipulation (like SE conversion) rather than > as a significant semantic modification (like BAI or tanru), I think that depends on how it is taught. In my pro-cmavo paper, I am clearly introducing it as a semantic change to the selbri. > But I am > still nervous of its propensity to encourage malglico So it may. But at least the anomaly will be marked, rather than being buried in an unexpressed "zo'e". -- John Cowan cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!lock60!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban.