Received: from BULLDOG.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 18 Nov 1993 06:59:40 -0500 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by bulldog.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 18 Nov 1993 06:59:37 -0500 Message-Id: <199311181159.AA01253@bulldog.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7048; Thu, 18 Nov 93 06:51:43 EST Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 0659; Thu, 18 Nov 93 06:43:15 EDT Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 11:02:50 GMT Reply-To: Colin Fine Sender: Lojban list From: Colin Fine Subject: Re: proposal for new member of SE To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Thu Nov 18 11:02:50 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET > Could we not instead have an additional SE (with rafsi) that means: > exchange 1st & last places >Used recursively, this would allow a different way of getting at >places beyond the 5th. >For example, if this new member of SE were "xehe", rafsi "xez", >then the lujvo for "x1 is the vehicle of an event of going" >would be "xeznunkla". .i'enai .oi This is rampant ad-hocery. I also don't see how it could be used recursively. I see nothing wrong with using zei. Colin