From: Jonathan Jones &= lt;eyeonus@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent= : Thu, March 31, 2011 7:49:10 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Extensibility of vocatives (do'a non-selbri)

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:41 PM, John E Clifford= <kali9putra@y= ahoo.com> wrote:

Since these last few days have been devoted to "the right way" to say a
conventional utterance like "Good Night", why not just use a relevant utter= ance
and make a convention about it. Loglan had 'speni lo gudbi' (wh= ich was
probably eventually something else) "Experience good things". Note it is no= t an
imperative nor a hortative or the like, just a bare form floating around, j= ust
the sort of thing for a conventional utterance. Of course, you have t= o
translate it over and maybe dress it up for particular occasions (Good Nigh= t,
Happy Birthday, etc.) but the general pattern has been around for 55 years = now.
why diddle?

zo'o Because we're Lojban= ists! That's what we do!

----- Original Message ----
From: Jorge Llamb=EDas <jjllambi= as@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com=
Sent: Thu, March 31, 2011 4:52:47 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Extensibility of vocatives (do'a non-selbri)

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there an experimental cmavo which binds two things into a tanru-lik= e
> state? sa'unai something which takes the grammar of the right word, wi= th the
> meaning modified in some vague way by the selbri to its left?

Sounds like "ze'ei" to me.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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