From thinkit8@lycos.com Thu Oct 04 19:17:09 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 5 Oct 2001 02:17:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 6039 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2001 02:17:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Oct 2001 02:17:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n6.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.10.45) by mta1 with SMTP; 5 Oct 2001 02:17:08 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.2.11] by n6.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Oct 2001 02:17:08 -0000 Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 02:17:08 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: ge'e as attitudinal separator Message-ID: <9pj574+bn7f@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <9pgvjb+8d02@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 789 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.4.254.136 From: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11364 --- In lojban@y..., thinkit8@l... wrote: > on page 312 of the codex woldemar, it notes how > > "mi pu tavla do .o'onai .oi" can either mean that the .oi modifies > the .o'onai (damn, i snapped at you), or they independently modify > the do (i told you, you pest!). what about using ge'e to resolve the > ambiguity. thus the first case is still do ".o'onai .oi", but the > second case is "do .o'onai ge'e .oi". it's even hinted about on page > 311. what do you think? i haven't found anything about this on the > wiki. wait, i think i can explain this better. if you look at the attitudes as a heirarchy, then ge'e serves to go up one level. any other word advances a level and serves to modify the previous word. thus you have: do *u'i **oi (ge'e) **iu