From pycyn@aol.com Wed Apr 12 09:14:27 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1599 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2000 16:14:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 Apr 2000 16:14:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d05.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.37) by mta2 with SMTP; 12 Apr 2000 16:14:26 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v25.3.) id h.a2.2eca4bb (4357) for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:14:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:14:20 EDT Subject: RECORD: connective order To: lojban@onelist.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows sub 33 X-eGroups-From: Pycyn@aol.com From: pycyn@aol.com Connectives (and quantifiers) expand in left to right order, so A a B C e D is A C e D ija B C e D. (Can this be altered by, for example using prefix forms? But that does, in fact, put the the connective first, I suppose. Are there things like parentheses for this? Does the difference between sumti connective and various predicate connective make a difference?) pc