Message-ID: <348ECD41.BC6@locke.ccil.org> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:11:29 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: xi, kennings, jvajvo (was Re: Are tanru really metaphors?) References: <199712101535.KAA04387@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 641 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Dec 10 12:11:29 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - la .and. cusku di'e > My solution: is it possible ofr a brivla to have a {xi} > "subscript"? Yes. Subscripts can be attached to almost anything, but syntactically must be numbers or letters or parenthesized mathematical expressions, not names. > Perhaps there is some way of toggling the whole text so the > hearer looks the word up in the kenning list first and only > consults the standard lexicon if the word isn't in the kenning > list. Maybe {ni`o xi la kenning} might do that. A metalinguistic remark beginning with "sei" would serve nicely. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban