From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Nov 03 07:13:31 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 3 Nov 2001 15:13:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 76556 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2001 15:13:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 3 Nov 2001 15:13:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Nov 2001 15:13:30 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (178.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.178]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fA3FDT702390 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 10:13:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011103101242.00a87a40@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 10:14:06 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lo with discourse-scope? In-Reply-To: <20011102160627.E879@twcny.rr.com> References: <20011102155731.C879@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 11907 At 04:06 PM 11/2/01 -0500, Rob Speer wrote: >On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 03:59:53PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Rob Speer wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:26:08AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > Uhhh, doesn't da keep its binding until changed? > > > According to recent discussion (and this dismays me greatly) {da} loses > > > its binding at the next bare {.i}! > > > > If that were the case there would hardly be a need for da'o. > >Precisely. Hence I was wondering why there wasn't more of an outcry when >(against all probability) PC and And both agreed about that. The primary purpose for da'o is to reset the ko'V and other anaphora that are assigned explicitly, and need therefore to be reassigned explicitly. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org