From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Fri Oct 15 21:09:43 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 14 Oct 1993 21:12:32 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 14 Oct 1993 21:11:03 -0400 Message-Id: <199310150111.AA05651@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1948; Thu, 14 Oct 93 21:09:08 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 4648; Thu, 14 Oct 93 21:11:52 EDT Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 11:09:43 +1000 Reply-To: Nick Nicholas Sender: Lojban list From: Nick Nicholas Subject: Re: TEXT: nu la nunmorsi catlu To: lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET Cc: Lojban Mailing List In-Reply-To: <199310141711.AA08241@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU> from "Logical Language Group" at Oct 14, 93 01:07:56 pm Status: RO X-Status: To Logical Language Group respond I thus: # .i mi penmi la nunmorsi le mi purdi ca le cerni A funny thought occured to me. In eliding anaphora, Japanese and Chinese are inferential languages --- you have to work out, aided by convention, who's doing what. In eliding tense information, as is done here, Lojban is doing the same. I wonder if this will be considered good style, once Lojban settles down, or whether {le ba cerni} would be preferred. The only way to find out, I guess, is to use forms like the above and see whether they'll fly. # .ije la nunmorsi terbandu catlu mi la nunmorsi cu terbandu catlu, I believe. # .i mi pacna le nu mi darno gi'e zvati la .isfaxan li'u Hm. Shouldn't that properly be {djica}? # .i mu'i tu'e Instead of .imu'ibotu'e... does this parse right? I mean, with the right constituent structure? I guess it does, since you used it :) "Kai` sa`n swqh~kan t'akriba` piota`, N N O nsn@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au kai` sa`n plhsi'aze pia` [h [w'ra te'sseres, I I L IRC:nicxjo RL:shaddupnic sto`n e'rwta doqh~kan eutuxei~s." C C A University of Melbourne. K.P.Kaba'fhs, _Du'o Ne'oi, 23 E'ws 24 Etw~n_ K H S *Ceci n'est pas un .sig*