Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rHkr6-00007DC; Wed, 14 Dec 94 05:58 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 FAA08396 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 1994 05:58:18 +0200 Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI (MAILER@FINHUTC) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-7 #2494) id <01HKMBLEMIHS0006CB@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Wed, 14 Dec 1994 03:54:42 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 4133; Tue, 13 Dec 1994 21:37:53 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0581; Tue, 13 Dec 1994 20:34:00 +0100 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 14:09:00 -0500 (EST) From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: Lojban prescriptivism? Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Message-id: <01HKMBP6DK6S0006CB@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: 425 Lines: 18 la lojbab cusku di'e > mi na djuno tu'a lekau se cmene be <> Here's an example of {kau}. I don't understand how you use it. I would have said: mi na djuno le du'u makau se cmene <> My sentence has the same number of syllables, and is more clear because it doesn't need a {tu'a}. What would you expand yours to, if you had to make the tu'a explicit? Jorge