From lojban-out@lojban.org Sun May 16 07:26:17 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 47150 invoked from network); 16 May 2004 14:26:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 May 2004 14:26:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 May 2004 14:26:17 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1BPMag-0000P0-V2 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 16 May 2004 07:26:11 -0700 Received: from dsl081-049-134.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.49.134] helo=chain.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BPMZw-0000OP-Fd; Sun, 16 May 2004 07:25:24 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 16 May 2004 07:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [195.167.170.152] (helo=bowl.fysh.org ident=mail) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BPMZi-0000O9-8a for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 16 May 2004 07:25:10 -0700 Received: from zefram by bowl.fysh.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPMZe-0007MZ-00; Sun, 16 May 2004 15:25:06 +0100 Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 15:25:06 +0100 Message-ID: <20040516142506.GD6655@fysh.org> References: <20040516091535.GA6655@fysh.org> <20040516135451.27822.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040516135451.27822.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-archive-position: 7881 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: zefram@fysh.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Zefram From: Zefram Reply-To: zefram@fysh.org Subject: [lojban] Re: y: what is it good for? X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22344 Jorge Llamb?as wrote: >If "y" is a word, it should be quotable with "zo", >lerfuable with "bu", lujvoable with "zei", >erasable with "si" and emphasizable with "ba'e", >like any other word. Is "si" a word? It satisfies some of these criteria but not all. I think "y" should be in the same category as "si". What you define above is actually a word-that-survives-pre-processing, for which we don't have a convenient name. "si" is not that type of word, nor is "y". -zefram