Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA25107 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 19:09:03 +0200 Message-Id: <199512131709.TAA25107@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 8C3AE77F ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 18:09:03 +0100 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:07:13 -0500 Reply-To: Jorge Llambias Sender: Lojban list From: Jorge Llambias Subject: Re: comments on CONN.TXT X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu, jorge@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 460 Lines: 18 la paulos cusku di'e > Jorge, are you saying that {ko} is a shorthand for {do e'o}? Yes, or for {do ei}, or {do e'u}, etc. {ko} is not so explicit as to the nature of the command. > If so, > isn't it redundant to say "e'osai ko sarji la lojban."? Yes, but that doesn't mean that it's wrong. "e'osai do sarji la lojban" would also be a request. > (Hmm, insisting so fervorously is perhaps not bad :-) Right, it can be seen as a more emphatic form. Jorge