| In a message dated 5/31/2001 7:06:35 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes: la pycyn cusku di'e Lord, I HOPE not. That kind of ambiguity (which carries on through, note, to make an ambiguity of {by} itself) would be a kind of disaster for a logical langauge. pe'I by lerfu .i zo by valsi But, but, but ... {by} is used as a variable or an anaphora, so {by lerfu} is ambiguous in context and certainly not always true. /b/ is a token of the type [b] and {by} stands for the type, so "This is "b"" is probably (in the present sense) {ti me by}. Lojban doesn't do types (nor tokens, come to that) well, so maybe they are like masses or maybe they are like kinds: {ti du pisu'o by}{ti du pa by} even {ti du by} (with some quantifiers or other gizmos understood). Maybe this is all backwards and {by} should stand for the sound (but freeze is in effect) and then the letter would be {bybu} (like Sanskrit, a much more oral tradition). Failing that, I suppose the sound has to be "the b-sound" {le bybusrsance} -- maybe {lo} and surely needing some cleaning up as a whatever the heck it turns out to be. |