[lojban] Re: zo xi

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Saturday 12 September 2009 22:57:12 Stela Selckiku wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:45 PM, stevo <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
> Hmm, well here is how I think of it: There are an infinite number of
> da/de/di/ko'a/fo'a/etc available, because you can use anything as a
> subscript.  You don't have to start anywhere in particular; it would
> be fine to start with da xi ci ze mu.  While I would agree with you
> that plain "da" is not necessarily identical to any particular
> subscripted "da", it's also not necessarily unidentical to them!  So
> while I believe that our practice of starting with a subscripted two
> is more of a habit than a rule, the reason for the habit is just to
> make it abundantly clear that you are making a second distinct
> reference.

I think that "da" is unequal to "daxi<ny>" for all ny, and similarly for 
anything else in KOhA. But "daxipira'eci" is equal to "daxifi'uci". On the 
other hand, "faxipa" is equal to "fa", and "faxifi'uci" is meaningless.

Pierre


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