From rob@twcny.rr.com Mon Oct 01 21:49:51 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 2 Oct 2001 04:48:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 33915 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2001 04:48:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.221 with QMQP; 2 Oct 2001 04:48:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout6.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.177) by mta1 with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 04:49:51 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f924mqH04244 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 00:48:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 00:48:52 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15oHUZ-0000bm-00 for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 00:49:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 00:49:15 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: The Pleasures of goi (was: zipf computations & experimental cmavo Message-ID: <20011002004915.A1021@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010930204315.00a9cf00@pop.cais.com> <9p8p4d+e7nd@eGroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9p8p4d+e7nd@eGroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:49:33AM -0000, mark@kli.org wrote: >(indeed, getting into the habit of saying {rodada'o} for > "everything" (instead of just {roda}) wouldn't be such a bad idea, > as {da} gets bound sometimes. It's wordier than it should be, but > better than nothing). Why use {da} if you're just going to cancel it afterward, anyway? The fact that 'roda' and 'noda' create assignments which go unused (when used to mean 'everything' and 'nothing') has been bothering me for a while. Why are those concepts not expressed by rozo'e/nozo'e, or maybe rozu'i/nozu'i? -- la rab.spir noi sarji zu'i