From lojban-out@lojban.org Fri Sep 17 11:06:47 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 60403 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2004 18:06:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 17 Sep 2004 18:06:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Sep 2004 18:06:47 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C8N89-00072d-Nb for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:06:45 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C8N7P-00070U-1A; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:05:59 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C8N7B-00070I-8C for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:05:45 -0700 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:05:45 -0700 Message-ID: <20040917180545.GH23979@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040917174958.GD9508@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040917174958.GD9508@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i X-archive-position: 8621 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 X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: zo malglico X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23032 On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:49:58PM -0400, Rob Speer wrote: > So the other explanation is bloody-minded tradition, the same > reason that people say "sumti tcita" even though it's less precise > and sounds worse than "sumtcita". Just for the record, I say sumtcita, and absolutely refuse to use the word "modal" for that purpose. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!"