From gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch Sun Sep 01 23:02:24 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 2 Sep 2002 06:02:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 33105 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2002 06:02:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Sep 2002 06:02:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta12n.bluewin.ch) (195.186.4.221) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Sep 2002 06:02:23 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (62.202.161.147) by mta12n.bluewin.ch (Bluewin AG 6.5.027) id 3D727237000053FB for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 08:02:21 +0200 Message-ID: <00d801c25246$5fc17ee0$b2a4ca3e@oemcomputer> To: "jboste" References: Subject: Re: [lojban] dictionary - which words? Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:09:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 From: "G. Dyke" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=81437350 X-Yahoo-Profile: gregvdyke > I think the "modal" examples should rather be under "mau", but either > way would be fine. > > 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? > yep, as is said in CLL, (wording mine) the use of the word "modal" is unfortunate in that it is not what modal means in normal linguistic parlance, but it is too deeply intrenched in the logl/jban project to be changed now. I think {mau} has no more right to its own "content" in the dictionary than {zma} although both should refer the user to zmadu. mu'o mi'e greg