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Re: [lojban] Re: Help!! learning Lojban

To: "A.W.T." <Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de>
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Help!! learning Lojban
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:46:17 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com
In-reply-to: <9h215i+43qi@eGroups.com> from "A.W.T." at "Jun 23, 2001 12:13:38 pm"

A.W.T. scripsit:

> Exact - and this should have been pointed to since long, since AFAIK  {bu'u=
> } never ever appeared to be used in this sense in favour of  
> idiomatical(?) {vi}! Why?

Mostly because "vi" is very old -- it goes back to 1960 at least, and "bu'u"
was added almost at the last minute.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter

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- Re: Help!! learning Lojban
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