Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id DAA22259 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 03:56:59 -0500 Message-Id: <199602210856.DAA22259@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 458565B6 ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 3:22:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:43:21 +0100 Reply-To: Goran Topic Sender: Lojban list From: Goran Topic Subject: Re: PLI: gismu for X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 720 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Feb 21 13:50:44 1996 X-From-Space-Address: - > > Yes, but we do not differentiate between kamkantu and kamselkantu in > > gliban. > > Do we distinguish them in Lojban? After all, {ka kantu kei} means > the same as {ka se kantu kei}; or is there some jvajvo convention > that makes {kamkantu} = {ka kea kantu kei} and {kamselkantu} = > {ka kea se kantu kei}? I suppose such a convention is a good idea, > if you like jvajvo. .i mi sruma da'i la'edi'u .i zo ke'a ka'e sumti lo sucta pezo ke fi roda .iku'i va'o lenu ra goi ko'a nalselsku kei mi sruma ledu'u ko'a sumti fi le pamoi be le'i nalselsku (I would assume so. ke'a can be anywhere in a ka abstraction; but, when I see ke'aless ka, I suppose that it fills the first unspecified position) co'o mi'e. goran.