From pycyn@aol.com Fri Feb 01 09:14:14 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 1 Feb 2002 17:14:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 77546 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2002 17:14:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Feb 2002 17:14:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m10.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.165) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Feb 2002 17:14:14 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.26.) id r.a4.20677df0 (17380) for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:14:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:14:01 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] utterances To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_a4.20677df0.298c26d9_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_a4.20677df0.298c26d9_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/1/2002 11:00:10 AM Central Standard Time, BestATN@aol.com writes: > then what IS a sigh, if not an utterance? how do you define 'utterance'? > I gather that an utterance is something like a sentence, rather than merely an audible,perhaps even phonemizable, exhalation. Strictly, of course, {ui} has a grammar and thus is somewhat different from a sigh, but its function is meant to be similar. --part1_a4.20677df0.298c26d9_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/1/2002 11:00:10 AM Central Standard Time, BestATN@aol.com writes:

then what IS a sigh, if not an utterance? how do you define 'utterance'?

I gather that an utterance is something like a sentence, rather than merely an audible,perhaps even phonemizable, exhalation. Strictly, of course, {ui} has a grammar and thus is somewhat different from a sigh, but its function is meant to be similar. --part1_a4.20677df0.298c26d9_boundary--