From cowan Thu Oct 26 12:12:01 1995 Subject: Re: rel clause paper From: John Cowan To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 12:12:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199510252202.SAA22251@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Oct 25, 95 09:25:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 633 Status: OR Message-ID: la .and. cusku di'e > Yes, this is what I was after. Now, is (1) possible with a cmevla > instead of "nanmu", as in: > > 3) la frederik poi terpa le kea xirma ku > Frederick-afraid-of-his-horse > > like "Ethelred the Unready", "John Lackland", or "John Smith" > for that matter - or "John Johnson", "John Cowan"? No. For one thing, "ku" isn't used in "la frederik.", which has no elidable terminator. You are stuck with "la .efelred. to'erbred." or "la djan. tumclax.", and of course there's no guarantee that the hearer will correctly interpret such names. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.