From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Tue May 27 15:25:50 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 59186 invoked from network); 27 May 2003 22:25:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m7.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 May 2003 22:25:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lmsmtp03.st1.spray.net) (212.78.202.113) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 May 2003 22:25:50 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (host81-7-56-238.surfport24.v21.co.uk [81.7.56.238]) by lmsmtp03.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54CF93CF30 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 00:25:48 +0200 (MEST) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Digest Number 1752 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 23:25:47 +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) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030527050909.GH1511@ccil.org> From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 19947 John: > Nick Nicholas scripsit: > > > Moreover, any objections (and there have been many) lambast the whole > > of MEX, and MEX cmavo have few defenders. Most prominently you, in > > fact; the only other I can think of who is on record as not minding > > them is Robin.CA. > > I'll go on record as favoring MEX cmavo too Believe it or not, I've never been among those with a big downer on MEX. It's quite neatly circumscribed, easy to ignore, and doesn't interfere with the rest of the language. I class it among the optional extra bells and whistles. Compare this to the disaster area the gadri system currently is -- there's no contest. ==And.