From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 25 13:38:45 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVZTt-0005am-Ey for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:38:25 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVZTs-0005ab-Qu for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:38:25 -0700 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:38:24 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: What's a better word for modals? Message-ID: <20070325203824.GQ4403@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200703251436.37039.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200703251436.37039.phma@phma.optus.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 13633 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 Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:36:35PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > The usual linguistic use of "modal" means a word like {ka'e}, or > in the Germanic languages, a class of verbs, defective in English, > with that semantic function, in which the original past tense is > used as the present. The word in the CLL means a preposition > derived from a brivla (all except {tai} are derived from gismu, > and {do'e}, which belongs to the same selma'o, is a vague > preposition not derived from any brivla). What's a better term for > them? sumtcita -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.