From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Jan 14 06:06:24 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 14 Jan 2002 14:06:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 70269 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2002 14:06:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Jan 2002 14:06:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 14:06:23 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28183; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:06:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C42E6CA.6000407@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:10:18 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ragnarok@pobox.com Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] po'u considered harmful References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 12915 Craig wrote: > I had been interpreting the Book's statement (in chapter 8) that po'u means > poi du as meaning that po'u means poi du. That means that it is semantically (but not syntactically) interchangeable. > I have seen no mention of this elsewhere. I am willing to accept that I may > be wrong on this, but I would need to see some evidence that I am. Sorry, > but jbofi'e carries less weight than does the Book, in my mind. Show me > where the anything official says it stops at one sumti and I will only push > the malglico bit. The cmavo list tells us that po'u belongs to selma'o GOI, and the YACC and BNF grammars tell us that GOI is followed by a single term. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel