Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 20 Oct 1992 16:44:21 -0400 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2189; Tue, 20 Oct 92 16:42:40 EDT Received: by UGA (Mailer R2.08 PTF008) id 3497; Tue, 20 Oct 92 16:42:39 EDT Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 15:19:00 EDT Reply-To: "(John Cowan)" Sender: Lojban list From: "(John Cowan)" Subject: Re: TECH vrici X-To: uunet!cuvmb.bitnet!LOJBAN@uunet.UU.NET To: Erik Rauch Message-ID: <4W29SgHiJQE.A.JKB.z30kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Content-Length: 485 Iain notes that stand-alone eks are grammatical in sentences, whereas jeks are grammatical at the beginning of text. Giheks in fact follow the same rules as eks; and joiks, ijeks, and ijoiks follow the same rules as jeks (more or less). The purpose of this "miswart" is to make the connective questions useable: do djica lo ckafi ji lo tcadi .enai as well as permitting speakers to attach their sentences to previously spoken sentences with a logical or non-logical connection.