From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Sat Aug 04 18:19:56 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 5 Aug 2001 01:19:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 63127 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2001 01:19:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Aug 2001 01:19:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta01-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.41) by mta2 with SMTP; 5 Aug 2001 01:19:55 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.43.93]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010805011953.GCUX15984.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 02:19:53 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] 17 tallest men: summary Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 02:19:01 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 9188 Nick: > I've posted the thread as it stands so far on: > > http://nuzban.wiw.org/wiki/index.php?The%2017%20tallest%20men This is a lovely summary & document. I wish more of our threads ended up so well organized. > Please note my post-note to And: > > To which [nitcion] adds that this use of SOV is perverse, and ''da'' > clearly has scope over the relative clauses. In human-compatible Lojban > this is: > > *ro da poi da clamau da'a su'e pa ze de poi da .e ke'a remna > *ro da poi da clamau su'o da'a pa ze de poi da .e ke'a remna I said it the way I did partly because I enjoyed the opportunity to use subscripts on poi and ke'a, and partly because it's not clear which modificands of relative clauses can be referred to within the relative clause by something other than ke'a. But, given your user-friendly version, why not go the whole hog: *ro da poi da clamau da'a su'e pa ze de poi da .e de remna *ro da poi da clamau su'o da'a pa ze de poi da .e de remna --And.