Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:49:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801232349.SAA23391@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: Summary so far on DJUNO X-To: jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR X-cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-UIDL: 02cc30622e2afd2e0bbfd00edb28c79a X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 X-From-Space-Date: Mon Jan 26 12:41:03 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - Content-Length: 470 >And doesn't {fatci} potentially have such a place? > >If yes, why is {fatci} totally useless but not the others? If no, why not? Yes. But fatci, having only 1 place in its formal place structure, has no significant semantics OTHER than its absoluteness. Most of the gismu are multiplace and have semantics defined largely in terms of the interaction between the places. the 1 placers tedn to be the least useful of the gismu - the most semantically poor. lojbab