From cowan@mercury.ccil.org Mon Feb 03 12:01:20 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 03 Feb 2003 12:01:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mercury.ccil.org ([192.190.237.100] ident=mail) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18fmmJ-0005TL-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 12:01:15 -0800 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18fmmB-00074Q-00; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 15:01:07 -0500 Subject: [lojban] Re: Wierdness with lerfu strings. In-Reply-To: <20030203194215.GA20552@digitalkingdom.org> from Robin Lee Powell at "Feb 3, 2003 11:42:15 am" To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:01:07 -0500 (EST) CC: lojban-list@lojban.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: From: John Cowan X-archive-position: 3997 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > Apparently, lerfu strings cannot be names. Was that intentional? Yes. Following "la" is either a cmevla (ending in a consonant) or else a predicate. Lerfu strings are neither. So either add a consonant, la byfyf. or else just say byfy. and let the referent of this anaphora be glorked. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_