Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 13 Oct 1993 04:39:48 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Wed, 13 Oct 1993 04:39:44 -0400 Message-Id: <199310130839.AA14752@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3463; Wed, 13 Oct 93 04:37:51 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 4340; Wed, 13 Oct 93 04:40:39 EDT Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1993 09:40:30 BST Reply-To: I.Alexander.bra0125@oasis.icl.co.uk Sender: Lojban list From: Iain Alexander Subject: Re: TECH: Lean Lujvo and fat gismu X-To: jorge@phyast.pitt.edu X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Wed Oct 13 04:39:48 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET mi pu cusku di'e > > But {cusku} doesn't have a "language" place, so I've got to use > > another word to tack this on. We normally use {bau} or {bangu}, > > although this has a seemingly irrelevant-in-this-context place > > for the people who speak the language. .i la xorxes. cusku di'e > bangu ban bau language > x1 is a/the language/dialect used by x2 > to express/communicate x3 (si'o/du'u, not quote) > It doesn't look like it has to be all the speakers of the language. Oops! Looks like I chose a bad example (to illustrate problems - a good example of a productive place structure). I was working with bangu ban bau language x1 is a/the language/dialect of people(s) x2 1b 162 which now appears to be out-of-date. mi'e .i,n.