Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 19:29:56 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710250029.TAA14794@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Sender: Lojban list From: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Subject: Re: ni X-To: lojban To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 600 Lines: 14 Lojbab: >As for as the language design goes, ANY kind of sumti can go in any place >of any selbri. The semantics might be impossible, but that just makes life >more fun. So far as I am concerned, this debate is about what is semantically >sensible in the specified places, which is not a grammatical issue and is >not intended to be covered by the refgrammar or the gismu list in quite so >authoritative a sense as the grammar is covered. ?! Almost every single debate on the list has been like that! There's practically nothing to debate on syntactics, is there? co'o mi'e xorxes