From lojbab Wed May 25 14:31:26 1994 From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199405251834.AA20316@access2.digex.net> Subject: Cmavo conflict: "vu'o" To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 14:34:20 -0400 (ADT) Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net (Logical Language Group) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1166 Status: RO The cmavo "vu'o" is currently used in two ways. It was first assigned as a member of UI in order to provide for attitudinal contours: "vu'o" indicates an emotion that is coming to be felt, "vu'ocu'i" one that is continuing to be felt, and "vu'onai" one that is no longer being felt. This usage made it into the drafts of the attitudinal paper available at the FTP site, but not into the cmavo list there. Later, "vu'o" was assigned again, this time in a grammatical role relating to relative clauses, with its own selma'o VUhO. This "vu'o" serves as a flag which shows that the following relative clauses apply to the whole preceding sumti (possibly including logical connectives) rather than just the rightmost portion of it. This conflict cannot be allowed to stand. There has been essentially no usage of either type of "vu'o", so changing one is not a big deal. Since the second "vu'o" involves a grammar change as well as a cmavo-list change, it makes most sense to change the first. A logical candidate is "bu'o", which is free and is very similar in form. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.