From pycyn@aol.com Fri Sep 07 07:10:16 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 7 Sep 2001 14:10:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 95103 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2001 14:05:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 Sep 2001 14:05:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r05.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 7 Sep 2001 14:05:32 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.4.) id r.10d.56835bd (4327) for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:05:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <10d.56835bd.28ca2e12@aol.com> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:05:06 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Mark on wiki on lerfu To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_10d.56835bd.28ca2e12_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_10d.56835bd.28ca2e12_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/7/2001 7:59:35 AM Central Daylight Time, a.rosta@ntlworld.com writes: > "we can use any string of lerfu as a ko'a-style sumti variable (which makes > me > think that there's practically no reason ever to use the ko'a series at > all)" > > -- can you explain? > Well, {ko'a} needs {goi} to work effectively, but we can pretty uniquely refer to any earlier sumti (within mental limits) with one or two lerfu in a row, without needing to use {goi}, and without running into the limit to 10 forms or whatever. [how do we know to parse {gyby} as one sumti rather than two?] --part1_10d.56835bd.28ca2e12_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/7/2001 7:59:35 AM Central Daylight Time,
a.rosta@ntlworld.com writes:


"we can use any string of lerfu as a ko'a-style sumti variable (which makes
me
think that there's practically no reason ever to use the ko'a series at
all)"

-- can you explain?


Well, {ko'a} needs {goi} to work effectively, but we can pretty uniquely
refer to any earlier sumti (within mental limits) with one or two lerfu in a
row, without needing to use {goi}, and without running into the limit to 10
forms or whatever.
[how do we know to parse {gyby} as one sumti rather than two?] --part1_10d.56835bd.28ca2e12_boundary--