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Re: rapprochement

At 04:54 PM 02/18/2000 -0500, Robert A. McIvor wrote:
> >Lojban is Loglan. It would be wonderful if the good minds from TLI joined
> >us and applied their years of wisdom to helping us grapple with the
> >advanced topics we have been discussing, such as the subjunctive, etc.
>
> Indeed, we had extensive discussions on the subjunctive two or
>three years ago, and added it to Loglan. However, incorporating it in Lojban
>would add at least one cmavo, so alas, it would not be suitable for the 
>author.
>
>Sincerely,
>Robert A. McIvor
>(rmcivor@mac.com)

On the other hand, I think we actually have the counterpart to the 
subjunctive cmavo that you added. Our experience the last few years is 
that we have had everything we needed to solve issues that have come 
up. We also have the metalinguistic predicate marker (our "sei", a 
generalization of TLI's "soi") that can perform almost any linguistic 
effect if needed).

lojbab
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