Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu (uga.cc.uga.edu [128.192.1.5]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id QAA23636 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 16:42:43 -0400 Message-Id: <199507252042.QAA23636@locke.ccil.org> Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2656; Tue, 25 Jul 95 16:33:54 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0224; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 15:31:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 15:34:48 EDT Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Subject: Re: noa regressing X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Tue Jul 25 16:42:53 1995 X-From-Space-Address: <@uga.cc.uga.edu:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> And: > > >[I guess they are intended to > > >be used with gadri, e.g. {lo te noa}, but I don't see how that avoids > > >infinite regression.] > > la djef. jinvi ledu'u > > la djan. cu klama le zarci le zdani fu le karce po le nei > > Jeff opines that John goes to the store from the house in his (John's) > > car. > > la djef. jinvi leduu la djan. cu klama le zarci fu le karce po le nei > be la djan bei le zarci bei fu le karce po le nei be la djan bei le > zarci fu le karce po le nei be la djan bei le zarci bei fu le karce > po le nei be la djan bei le zarci fu le karce po le nei be la djan bei > le zarci bei fu le karce po le nei be la djan bei le zarci fu le karce > po le nei be la djan bei le zarci bei fu le karce po le nei be la djan > bei le zarci fu le karce po le nei be la djan bei le zarci bei fu le > karce po le nei be la djan bei le zarci fu le karce po le nei..... Actually, I think it would expand to: la djef jinvi le du'u la djan cu klama le zarci le zdani fu le karce po le klama be le zarci bei le zdani beifu le karce po le klama be le zarci bei le zdani beifu le karce po le klama be le zarci bei le zdani beifu le karce po le klama be le zarci bei le zdani beifu le karce po le klama be le zarci bei le zdani beifu le karce po le klama be le zarci bei le zdani beifu le karce po le klama be le zarci bei le zdani beifu le karce po le klama be le zarci bei le zdani beifu le karce po le klama be le zarci bei le zdani beifu le karce po le klama be le zarci bei le zdani beifu le karce po le nei..... But I think that {nei} and {no'a} don't really repeat the bridi, they repeat the selbri. The unfilled arguments are assumed to be the same as those of the respective bridi just because those are the most obvious ones, but they are not repeated textually (or whatever the word is in Latin). Jorge