Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 1 Oct 1993 02:15:21 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 1 Oct 1993 02:15:16 -0400 Message-Id: <199310010615.AA12061@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3297; Fri, 01 Oct 93 02:13:34 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 3863; Fri, 01 Oct 93 02:16:08 EDT Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 02:12:47 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: Eaton: You asked for it ... X-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Thu Sep 30 22:12:47 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Based on Jorge's clarification: JL> I don't so much want a word for "deserve", as one to serve as a JL> tertanru for many lujvo (usually ending in -able in English) like JL> "readable", "admirable", "credible", "trustable", "commendable", JL> "lovable", "forgetable" "forgivable", "remarcable", "believable", JL> "unusable", "considerable", ... I note that JCB considered the -ables to be a manifestation of the potentiality of a bridi, thus needing no marker in optionally-marked Lojban. "se pensi" is something thinkable "se sinma" is something estimable "se tcidu" is something readable "se krici" is something believable If you need to be specific that you are referring to the possibility of it, you might put -cumki on the end (or the beginning, depending on your priority of concept) to emphasize potentiality (or did we give the potential tense marker a rafsi - my list isn't handy), but lujvo minimalists wouldn't want to. lojbab