From cowan@ccil.org Fri Oct 26 08:20:53 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 26 Oct 2001 15:20:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 1123 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2001 15:20:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by 10.1.1.223 with QMQP; 26 Oct 2001 15:20:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 26 Oct 2001 15:20:53 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15x8n2-0008Fq-00 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:20:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Types of fu'ivla in natural languages In-Reply-To: from Craig at "Oct 22, 2001 04:23:13 pm" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:20:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Craig scripsit: > My sense is that type 1 is reasonably common, and in English is the same as > type 2. The best analogue to Type 1 vs. Type 2 in English is talking about Muenchen vs. Munich, I think. > Type 3 > don't occur in English I think that "Gobi Desert" and "Missisippi River" are analogues, given that "-bi" and "-sippi" already mean "desert" and "river" in the source languages. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan