From phma@webjockey.net Sun Sep 01 23:11:06 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 2 Sep 2002 06:11:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 49161 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2002 06:11:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Sep 2002 06:11:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Sep 2002 06:11:05 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 333743C476; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 02:11:03 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: "jboste" Subject: Re: [lojban] dictionary - which words? Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 02:11:01 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <00d801c25246$5fc17ee0$b2a4ca3e@oemcomputer> In-Reply-To: <00d801c25246$5fc17ee0$b2a4ca3e@oemcomputer> X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0209020211010Q.03340@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Sunday 01 September 2002 16:09, G. Dyke wrote: > 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. Do you mean {mau} the rafsi or the sumtcita? {zma} is not a word, it is only a rafsi. phma