From cowan  Sat Mar  6 22:57:44 2010
Subject: Re: ke'a
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
From: cowan
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:52:29 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199511212157.QAA28987@locke.ccil.org> from "Jorge Llambias" at Nov 21, 95 04:47:42 pm
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> > 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.

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John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.