From graywyvern@hotmail.com Thu Feb 17 12:56:35 2000 X-Digest-Num: 367 Message-ID: <44114.367.2000.959273826@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:56:35 PST From: "michael helsem" Subject: Re: Dr. James Cooke Brown >From: John Cowan >To: A Rosta >CC: loglanists@ucsd.edu, logli@ucsd.edu, lojban@onelist.com, >a.rosta@pmail.net >Subject: Re: [lojban] Dr. James Cooke Brown >Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:00:02 -0500 (snip) >A possible candidate would be the little-word "hoa", which is not >currently defined in Loglan (or not in the posted version of L1, anyhow). >This would mean "What follows is Lojban". The corresponding Lojban >cmavo, "xo'a" (pronounced about the same way) has already been explicitly >reserved for experimental use, like all little-words beginning with "x". (snip) There are a few cases in which i prefer the sound of the Loglan to the sound of the Lojban word, & i actually have wished for a little conversion-cmavo for poetry, preferably with short-scope binding. But this would also work. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com