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Subject: RE: [lojban] The Knights who forgot to say "ni!"
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From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com>

Rob:
> "whether D is a crook". Not every grammatical construct has to be "evaluated"
> to something shorter.

In general, things *are* fully evaluated in Lojban. The times when you want 
something that doesn't evaluate are special cases, that call for special
constructions, the ones that cause us so much perplexity.

--And.