From pycyn@aol.com Wed Sep 11 06:46:19 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 11 Sep 2002 13:46:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 61414 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2002 13:46:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Sep 2002 13:46:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d05.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.37) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2002 13:46:18 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v34.10.) id r.94.2c444275 (3948) for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:46:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <94.2c444275.2ab0a327@aol.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:46:15 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] tunlo To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_94.2c444275.2ab0a327_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_94.2c444275.2ab0a327_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/10/2002 8:42:50 PM Central Daylight Time, phma@webjockey.net writes: << > Or likewise {da pu laldo ninmu co tunlo le sfani} (which I'm going to tweak > as I found some sort-of-rhyming words for the animals). >> Understandable is not the same thing as grammatically or semantically correct. We can get away with it -- indeed we do all the time: something like 30% of all utterances are ungrammatical -- in college lectures, yet. But I thought the point here was to learn the language, not to keep hitting in its general area. Once we are fluent we can get sloppy, untilk then it seems a good idea to get it right. --part1_94.2c444275.2ab0a327_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/10/2002 8:42:50 PM Central Daylight Time, phma@webjockey.net writes:

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Or likewise {da pu laldo ninmu co tunlo le sfani} (which I'm going to tweak
as I found some sort-of-rhyming words for the animals).

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Understandable is not the same thing as grammatically or semantically correct. We can get away with it -- indeed we do all the time: something like 30% of all utterances are ungrammatical -- in college lectures, yet. But I thought the point here was to learn the language, not to keep hitting in its general area. Once we are fluent we can get sloppy, untilk then it seems a good idea to get it right.
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