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[lojban] Re: Sources for luj1999?
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:49:41AM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Michael Turniansky
> <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Right, I knew about the great rafsi shift, but I don't know if/how
> > gismu places might have changed (did danfu really have a fourth
> > place?), nor grammar might have changed (was "ca ra le pu djedi"
> > really a single clause?) Those do more to mess up the meaning than
> > the one changed lujvo.
>
> "ra" looks suspiciously like the Loglan word for "ro".
It does indeed, but in Lojban, "ra" had been a back-counting anaphora all the way since 1988.
See http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Miscellaneous+Lojban+Stuff#history .
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