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Re: Anything but tautologies



I accidentally replied to pycyn (PLEASE munge the reply-to!), so I'm
forwarding his response.

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Envelope-to: rob@localhost
Delivery-date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 01:16:30 -0500
From: Pycyn@aol.com
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: [jboske] RE: Anything but tautologies
To: rob@twcny.rr.com

In a message dated 3/1/2002 9:25:53 PM Central Standard Time, 
rob@twcny.rr.com writes:


> 'A' is just an abbreviation for {abu}; this does not say that {abu}
> actually refers to a capital 'A'.
> 
> There is no abbreviation for {tau abu}, which does refer to a capital
> 'A', which is justifiable because as far as I know, {tau} and its
> friends have not been used in any actual Lojban text.
> 

An odd choice, since the natural would be "a," though that ccreates serious 
problems; maybe italic a.  "A" is the natural abbreviation for {tau abu} or 
{ga'e abu}.
This is what I mean by the "system" being very strange.

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