Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:12:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712101812.NAA10522@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral Subject: Re: xi, kennings, jvajvo (was Re: Are tanru really metaphors?) X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 678 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Dec 10 13:12:34 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU 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