| In a message dated 7/18/2001 5:56:55 AM Central Daylight Time,
ragnarok@pobox.com writes: Why do I need cu's if there's nothing else that could be a selbri? a) Nothing requires that there be a selbri in an utterance, so there is no way to know that what "must" be the selbri is to be one. b) Even if there did have to be a selbri, nothing requires that the one that "must" be on be it -- until after it has been uttered and we come to the {ko}. But Lojban requires that we know before we come to the {ko} that the word before it is a selbri, not the second brivla of a sumti (that how Lojban is grammatically unambiguous). |