From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Fri Sep 27 12:50:46 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 27 Sep 2002 19:50:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 75850 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2002 19:50:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 27 Sep 2002 19:50:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailbox-3.st1.spray.net) (212.78.202.103) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 19:50:45 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (host213-121-71-29.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.71.29]) by mailbox-3.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF8D19572 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:50:44 +0200 (DST) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: interactions between tenses, other tenses, and NA Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:52:19 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200209271557.LAA25011@mail2.reutershealth.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin John: > > Of course, and everybody says things wrong every now and then > > even in their native language. All I'm saying is that the rule > > for {na} is extremely difficult to master, at least for me. > > It is pretty alien, yes. To me it seems one of the more naturalistic features of Lojban -- a quirky, exceptional, counterintuitive, unnecessary complication, of the sort natlangs are full of & Lojban is largely free of. --And.