From zefram@fysh.org Mon Aug 23 17:38:42 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:38:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fysh.org ([83.170.75.51] helo=bowl.fysh.org ident=mail) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1BzPKb-0008Am-J8 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:38:33 -0700 Received: from zefram by bowl.fysh.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BzPKY-0000YN-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:38:30 +0100 Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:38:30 +0100 From: Zefram To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: ibaubo Message-ID: <20040824003830.GA1197@fysh.org> References: <200408230639.36111.phma@phma.hn.org> <20040823184559.GP3257@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040823224401.GA18730@fysh.org> <20040823224713.GL3257@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040823224713.GL3257@chain.digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-archive-position: 8545 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 Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell wrote: >Right. Why not use ".i se bau bo" ? That would be "with language user ..."? >> I didn't realise one could do that with "bau". > >You can do it with any BAI. But BAI takes a sumti, whereas the sentence being used as this argument could contain a bridi rather than just a sumti. How would "broda ibaubo brode" be treated? I think I've missed something; BAI seems to be in a lot more places in the grammar than I can explaim. -zefram