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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:22:31 +0100
To: lojban <lojban@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: nicholas <nicholas@uci.edu>
Subject: Re: [lojban] soi vo'a: partial backflip
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From: And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk>

>>> Nick NICHOLAS <nicholas@uci.edu> 08/24/01 12:12am >>>
#I've had a further think on lenu... soi vo'a, which xod brought up, and
#I'm doing a backflip.
[...]
#So I propose:
#* vo'a is by default long-distance
#
#* when context overwhelmingly allows it, it can be short-distance instead
[...]
#For the hardliners, as Jay and And have rightly pointed out, there's
#always {lenei} and {leno'a}/{leno'axiro}.

Speaking as a hardliner, I like this. Subscripted no'a panders to the hardl=
iners and grungey vo'a panders to the naturalists.

Could this suggest future ways of resolving hardliner vs naturalist debates=
?
i.e. have alternate bits of grammar, one version of which panders to one co=
nstituency and the other version of which panders to the other constituency=
?

--And.