From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Sep 30 08:46:49 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 30 Sep 2002 15:46:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 96836 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2002 15:46:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Sep 2002 15:46:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2002 15:46:48 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA20589; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:58:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209301558.LAA20589@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:46:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] LOI PRENU GO PA MEI GI KA'E NAI TE JINGA? To: arosta@uclan.ac.uk (And Rosta) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 11:46:11 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com (lojban) In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Sep 30, 2002 04:31:03 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan And Rosta scripsit: > How about {loi prenu go pa mei gi ka'e nai te jinga} > that sounds pretty coolass to me -- something John might consent to chant. Indeed I would. Alas, "gi nai" are about as united as any two cmavo can possibly be, and "ka'e" can't intervene. A UI can intervene, but the result is that the "nai" binds to the UI. I think the best we can do is "loi prenu. go pamei. giNAI ka'E te jinga." > But it won't work if GA can occur tanru internally, which it probably can. No, that's why GUhA exists -- to eliminate the ambiguity. -- All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part John Cowan that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part www.ccil.org/~cowan that cooks with olive oil, and the part that www.reutershealth.com cooks with butter. -- David Chessler jcowan@reutershealth.com