From pycyn@aol.com Thu Apr 27 09:22:28 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30712 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2000 16:20:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 27 Apr 2000 16:20:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO qh.egroups.com) (10.1.2.28) by mta2 with SMTP; 27 Apr 2000 16:20:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 26768 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2000 16:20:08 -0000 Received: from imo-r20.mx.aol.com (HELO imo-r20.mail.aol.com) (152.163.225.162) by qh.egroups.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2000 16:20:08 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v26.7.) id a.e6.49b1262 (4363) for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:20:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:20:02 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] nazycau gerku To: lojban@egroups.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 From: pycyn@aol.com In a message dated 4/26/00 8:08:23 PM CST, graywyvern@hotmail.com writes: << lepoi nazycau ku'o gerku cu se panci fi role sumne po'u na'ebo vo'a (The noseless dog is smelled by everyone but himself.) .i paunaixu la'edi'u frica lenu lepoi nazbi ku'o gerku go'a (How is that different from other dogs?)>> Is the poi--ku'o necessary (or even appropriate) here? There is no clause, only a modifier-modified predicate compound it seems. se nazbi? the other dogs are benosed, not noses? What force do pau and nai add to xu? Rhetorical question?