Return-Path: Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rKtt7-00007MC; Thu, 22 Dec 94 22:13 EET Received: from fiport.funet.fi (fiport.funet.fi [128.214.109.150]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id WAA29390 for ; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 22:13:24 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (MAILER@SEARN) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-13 #2494) id <01HKYG77IQB40001C1@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 20:12:29 +0200 (EET) Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4923; Thu, 22 Dec 1994 21:10:11 +0100 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 20:10:30 +0000 From: ucleaar Subject: Re: ago In-reply-to: (Your message of Wed, 21 Dec 94 22:41:21 PST.) Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: ucleaar Message-id: <01HKYG77JBZ60001C1@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> X-Envelope-to: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 277 Lines: 10 Djer: > On the wordiness question, dare I mention yet another experimental > cmavo? Would a word for "ago" really rent the fabric of lojban? Yes, it would. "Ago" means "before now", as, I think, does "ba" when it has no overt complement. So "ago" = intransitive ba. --- And