Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tHTY9-0000ZUC; Mon, 20 Nov 95 12:34 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 915599D2 ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 11:34:08 +0100 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 05:33:32 -0500 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: le reroi cuplinfanva cuntu X-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 898 Lines: 21 >> How do these {sei} work? > >I've started using {sei} as an adverbifier. I don't really understand what >it's supposed to be used for, but it is often very convenient to have >selbri modifiers other than stuck directly to the selbri. I suppose >{fi'o se krefu ku} would do as well, but it is longer and has a terminator. It is supposed to mark metalinguistic usage, and so is a bit out of place as an adverbifier. It is rather more the type of thing that one would use to make up an ad hoc discursive bridi or even an indicator. It can also manipulate the text without affecting truth value or claim, or rather it does so after the mannerof an indicator. >> (Same question >> for {si, sa, su} - how do you quote these?) This might be in the front matter of the YACC grammar, and Cowan might have it in the text paper. It is part of the priority rules for grammar/lexer interaction. lojbab