Subject: Re: [lojban] The Pleasures of goi

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:00:14 -0400

The way {goi} behaves in my mind is like this:
It assigns the word on the right the value of the word on the right rather 
than vice versa.
It assigns a KOhA the value of a cmene or brivla sumti rather than vice versa.
If both words are already assigned values, it reassigns one of them rather 
than equates them.
What happens if these rules conflict is unclear to me.

So, in {la djan. goi ko'a li'o la bab. goi fo'e li'o fo'e goi ko'a}, {ko'a} 
now refers to Bob, rather than John and Bob being the same.

As to {da'o} deassigning {da}, I think it's a good idea. When Mark read my 
post about the plane attacks, in which I reused {da}, he thought it sounded 
like the plane was a hospital in downtown New York.

phma