[lojban] Re: Archivist/Founders: {ri'a nai} vs. {se mau nai}

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> The "despite" thing seems to be a huge wart, and I'm wondering if
> you guys had anything in mind for BAI+NAI *in general*.

1) Keywords are only meaningful to LogFlash.  They aren't definitional.

2) I had nothing to do with assigning keywords or deciding which
compound cmavo made it into the cmaste.

3) I said what I had to say, which isn't much, about BAI NAI at
http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter15.html#s7 ,
though there are no examples there:  it's just a badly designed way
of saying "na".

4) I'd be happy to see BAI NAI, PU NAI, and FAhA NAI bite the big one.

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