Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id RAA06369 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:50:17 -0500 Message-Id: <199511262250.RAA06369@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id D3729244 ; Sun, 26 Nov 1995 18:38:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 17:37:29 -0500 Reply-To: Jorge Llambias Sender: Lojban list From: Jorge Llambias Subject: Re: kelci X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu, jorge@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Sun Nov 26 17:50:19 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU la kir cusku di'e > Must x2 of {kelci} be physical object? Is following legal? > > {mi kelci lenu mi nolraitru la fasygu'e kei} > > {mi kelci la lojban} As far as legality goes, the parser will accept them, so in that sense at least they are legal. As for their meaning, I don't know. Can Lojban be something with which one plays? It seems that it can. Can an event be something with which one plays? (Let's write it as {mi kelci lenu da'i mi nolraitru le fasygu'e} to placate And.) I'm not sure, but it certainly doesn't seem like complete nonsense. Jorge