From cowan Mon Nov 6 09:48:43 1995 Subject: Re: M.Helsem From: John Cowan To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 09:48:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199511030328.WAA16819@locke.ccil.org> from "jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU" at Nov 2, 95 10:21:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 949 Status: OR Message-ID: la xorxes. cusku di'e > I think it's unfair to call [Michael Helsem] a semi-Lojbanist on account > of the very few grammar errors, else nobody can claim to be a Lojbanist. I meant that to group as "semi (Lojban ist)", not "(semi Lojban) ist", meaning that M. H. was and is peripheral to the Lojban community. > The errors in this poem are {i nabo} instead of {i naku}, God knows what that was about. > an incorrect {ku} after a BAI KOhA, That used to be grammatical. > {po'i} instead of {pe'a} (has the meaning of {po'i} changed in time?) Yes; "po'i" was once the start-of-figurative marker, later changed to "pe'a", which later changed to a UI for figurative use. > and a strange use of {je'o} to mean > "recedingly", which I can't understand unless it's an archaic meaning. That was the old "scalar-tensor" tense system, which preceded the Imaginary Journeys tense system. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.