Re: [lojban] Re: y: what is it good for?

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:
> Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> >If "y" is a word, it should be quotable with "zo",
> >lerfuable with "bu", lujvoable with "zei",
> >erasable with "si" and emphasizable with "ba'e",
> >like any other word.
> 
> Is "si" a word?  It satisfies some of these criteria but not all.
> I think "y" should be in the same category as "si".
> 
> What you define above is actually a word-that-survives-pre-processing,
> for which we don't have a convenient name.  "si" is not that type of word,
> nor is "y".

I think John Cowan calls them "magic words". Then it is not mandatory 
in principle that it should be quotable with zo.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



	
		
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