From rob@twcny.rr.com Wed Nov 14 14:12:36 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 14 Nov 2001 22:12:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 42578 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2001 22:12:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Nov 2001 22:12:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout6.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.125) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Nov 2001 22:12:32 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id fAEMCVm05390 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:12:31 -0500 (EST) 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 ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:12:28 -0500 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 1648Fs-0000IE-00 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:11:36 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 17:11:36 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Why is there so much irregularity in cmavo/gismu? Message-ID: <20011114171136.B1020@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer X-Yahoo-Profile: squeekybobo On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:56:56PM +0000, And Rosta wrote: > >>> Craig 11/13/01 10:43pm >>> > #>> Oh, and I seem to rememeber you using 'xu' and '.ui' the last time this > #>> came up. Is 'xu' being in UI the only thing that bothers you about se > #>> cmavo? If you want to junk something, I'd hope there is at least more > than > #>> one instance of it annoying you. > # > #I missed this comment the first time, so I will respond now. The answer is > #that xu and .ui are a particularly blatant example, but far from the only > #one. > > it's not that good an example, because {xu} really ought to have been > in JAhA (the ja'a/na selmaho), so this is an example of a misplaced cmavo rather than an example of a totally screwed up selmaho system. If xu were in JAhA, you would need a different word to question a specific part of the sentence (a feature of {xu} which is largely unexplored). -- la rab.spir noi sarji zo gumri