Subject: [lojban] Re: Loglan

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:53:14 -0500 (EST)

Jordan DeLong scripsit:

> Why is a specific toggle cmavo for loglan (which has difficulties
> in terms of parsing mentioned) any better than fu'ivla? {me zoi
> loglan. fooo foo foo .loglan. brodo brodo}, etc, works fine. It's
> what we use for accessing words from other languages. 

Actually that won't work: it means "x1 is an instance of the words
'fooo foo foo', not their referents.

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