Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tIIHg-0000ZUC; Wed, 22 Nov 95 18:44 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id A39E1754 ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 17:44:30 +0100 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:52:29 -0500 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Re: ke'a X-To: Lojban List To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199511212157.QAA28987@locke.ccil.org> from "Jorge Llambias" at Nov 21, 95 04:47:42 pm Content-Length: 628 Lines: 16 > > For the sake > > of saving a cmavo, the complications of resolution aren't worth the > > trouble. > > Exactly the same problems apply to {xe'u}. It also needs subscripts > for many arguments at the same level and for different levels of > embedding. No, the problems apply to "da", not "xe'u", since "xe'u" is just a quantifier. And they don't apply, at least not with such force. There are already three da-series cmavo, which solves many problems all by itself before subscripting has to be brought in at all. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.