From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Thu May 13 14:34:14 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 13 May 2004 14:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41908.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.159]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BONqB-0001Yh-L7 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 13 May 2004 14:34:07 -0700 Message-ID: <20040513211548.16889.qmail@web41908.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web41908.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 13 May 2004 14:15:48 PDT Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:15:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: y: what is it good for? To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20040513201522.GA4929@fysh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 7806 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Zefram wrote: > Until now it is always legal to pause at any word break. If a pause > is to become significant there then "ybu" must become a single word so > that it is not permitted to pause in the middle of it. That's a good point. Yes, {ybu} as a separate word (of selmaho BY) makes sense. > That doesn't > introduce any ambiguity, but does complicate the morphology. Not that much. {y} and {y'y} are already exceptional words each in a class of their own, they are the only words in the language that begin with y, so having a third one {ybu} would not be such a big deal. The slight complication in morphology would be compensated by the great simplification in syntax. {y} becomes transparent to everything, and {ybu} is just another member of an already existing selma'o. > I think I'd better do a proper analysis of the morphology, soon, before > it gets any more complicated. Good! mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861