From pycyn@aol.com Wed Nov 14 06:40:08 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 14 Nov 2001 14:40:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 71050 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2001 14:39:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Nov 2001 14:39:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d05.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.37) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Nov 2001 14:39:58 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.8.) id r.ab.12411529 (25714) for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:39:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:39:54 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Why is there so much irregularity in cmavo/gismu? To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_ab.12411529.2923dc3a_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_ab.12411529.2923dc3a_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think And and I agree in all but words. He would hold that Transformational Grammar is a device for relating sound strings to meaning and I would say that it might want to be but so far it has only gotten to relating sound strings to grmaatical structures, a necessary precursor to getting on to meaning (and the meaning part will be very different from the grammatical part). we also disagree on minor points, like how much of Lojban is settled and how much of natlangs are. But on the wholewe do agree (JHey, it happens sometimes). --part1_ab.12411529.2923dc3a_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think And and I agree in all but words. He would hold that Transformational Grammar is a device for relating sound strings to meaning and I would say that it might want to be but so far it has only gotten to relating sound strings to grmaatical structures, a necessary precursor to getting on to meaning (and the meaning part will be very different from the grammatical part). we also disagree on minor points, like how much of Lojban is settled and how much of natlangs are. But on the wholewe do agree (JHey, it happens sometimes). --part1_ab.12411529.2923dc3a_boundary--