From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 07 19:28:32 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MOMtb-00062L-SI for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:32 -0700 Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com ([209.85.217.220]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MOMtV-00060S-BR for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:31 -0700 Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so13322008gxk.10 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0qqfWaRLNVfe552UIwOJtyTXi4IcI7rIV+YXMTLV6Eg=; b=x0cp2akUhTZdWGsh8tQu7DYgTwjBNkEkmWrS2ba03lu1U1skQUcSvFpvccSWgPXuwq kmkr9z3BqyJmPgR9/NO7xgkv8/U2HjbkOxlNlOFF/WPCoxjHkvi5zuIHJL98CSgKTXGA 2UZPZA+egq+QOP4+QSogyuREyWvJ9BEY4bSDE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=egfGE1JTq8M2vlg8fgXLASPrtOUhHRUfh+jUFqQVI/+1D58HSSfx/ebVqK7HHF5aew n4N5Xo+aDGtUDojHpNUXGX5lIYaJu/YXlLFgsizI6KPkgMB40vScn9np0ANOJRiPO14x 2ufYdGSzF1Yl4V8J9DfCdwYY6TnAEqXV0ovwo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.54.6 with SMTP id c6mr995729yba.327.1247020098803; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <737b61f30907071923k3fce033chbd8b0aaa6617341f@mail.gmail.com> References: <737b61f30907071923k3fce033chbd8b0aaa6617341f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:28:18 -0400 Message-ID: <96f789a60907071928i565a727u211c2532ecbe2989@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [lojban] Re: be, bei? From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 15742 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: mturniansky@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Chris Capel wrote: > Why is bei grammatically necessary? Why not make {broda lo brode be la > alis. la djan be'o} legal? > > Chris Capel Well, I guess you could, but then be'o would basically never be elidable except at the end of an utterance --gejyspa 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.