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Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies



In a message dated 3/3/2002 12:28:15 AM Central Standard Time, rob@twcny.rr.com writes:


Do you have any evidence at all that letters are intended to refer to
themselves? That when Alice in Wonderland uses .abu., it's not actually
referring to Alice, just the letter A? I bet the other letters are
jealous that _they_ don't get to have adventures in Wonderland.


I don't think the letter refer to themselves, I think the lerfu words refer to the lerfu.  And my evidence is that "Alice" would be spelled {abu ly ibu cy ebu}.  Now, what the letters so refered to do is another issue (I should add that the problem is roughly the same in English, but Lojban is supposed to get around these things as a "logical language.")

<A lerfu or lerfu string on its own is a pronoun. Always.>

No, {a} is a sumti conjunction, {ai} is in UI, {n} is not a Lojban _expression_.