Subject: Re: [lojban] dictionary - which words?

From: Robert LeChevalier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 15:37:52 -0400

At 02:49 PM 9/1/02 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>Is the use of the word "modal" instead of "preposition" purely
>a Lojban thing? I think the usual (non-Lojban) sense of "modal"
>has more to do with what some UIs do. The only Lojban modals
>that might be standard modals are {ka'e} and {ca'a}, right?

The reason for using "modal" is that they are used in parallel with tense 
constructs modifying the predication. Why THOSE are called modals is a 
question for a linguist to answer.

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