From sentto-44114-3564-963271065-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Mon Jul 10 23:15:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 21887 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2000 23:15:51 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 10 Jul 2000 23:15:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 14481 invoked by uid 40001); 10 Jul 2000 23:17:59 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 14478 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2000 23:17:59 -0000 Received: from hl.egroups.com (208.50.99.197) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 10 Jul 2000 23:17:59 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-3564-963271065-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.35] by hl.egroups.com with NNFMP; 10 Jul 2000 23:17:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 1842 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2000 23:17:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 10 Jul 2000 23:17:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 10 Jul 2000 23:17:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA17024; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:55:25 -0400 (EDT) To: And Rosta Cc: lojban@egroups.com In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:55:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: RE: "which?" (was: RE: [lojban] centripetality: subset vs component Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, And Rosta wrote: > > The problem was a lack of theory, not a lack of opportunity. > > That's interesting to discover. It didn't stop Lojban in other areas, e.g. > Q-kau (but also many others). Q-kau was a desparate accommodation to a problem that, the more I (as chief grammarian) thought about it, the more muddled I got. Even asking Linguist List about it didn't help: natlangs are just as muddled. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make new friends, find the old at Classmates.com: http://click.egroups.com/1/5530/4/_/17627/_/963271065/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com