From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Apr 07 10:24:40 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1BBGms-00069u-3c for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:24:30 -0700 Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:24:30 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Opinions on "mi viska le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan." Message-ID: <20040407172430.GZ5197@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040407033605.31989.qmail@web41903.mail.yahoo.com> <016d01c41ca2$bce943a0$a2e1fea9@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <016d01c41ca2$bce943a0$a2e1fea9@oemcomputer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7484 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:16:18PM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > On the proposed equivalence of "djan" and "me la djan", this would not > in fact hold if CMENE=BRIVLA, since brivla "djan" could have more than > one sumti. Instead, la/lai/la'i would simply become redundant. There's a question for you: what is the place structure of a cmene-cum-brivla? Not that I actually *care*: proposals that invalidate past usage don't get much truck from me. The question is intended to indicate that the idea is a bit silly. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rocki morsi