From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Mar 25 21:04:44 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVgRJ-0005w8-5Q for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:04:13 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HVgRI-0005w1-H3 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:04:12 -0700 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:04:12 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: What's a better word for modals? Message-ID: <20070326040412.GS4403@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <200703251436.37039.phma@phma.optus.nu> <20070325203824.GQ4403@digitalkingdom.org> <200703251910.28201.phma@phma.optus.nu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200703251910.28201.phma@phma.optus.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 13635 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 06:10:26PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Sunday 25 March 2007 16:38, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > sumtcita > > On Sunday 25 March 2007 15:31, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > > Preposition, perhaps? > > But don't those apply to PU and other tense markers as well, in > phrases such as {pu le nanca}? On the rare occasions the distinction is required, I use "BAI cmavo" or "cmavo be zo bai", depending on what language I'm speaking in. -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.