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

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 02:11:01 -0400

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