From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Aug 22 08:36:29 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25645 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2000 15:36:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Aug 2000 15:36:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2000 15:36:27 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@skunk.reutershealth.com [204.243.9.153]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16458; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:36:23 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39A29DD0.FCC284A4@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:35:44 -0400 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre Abbat , "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] va'u References: <0008220947070A.02704@neofelis> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat wrote: > Why is the xamgu modal va'u instead of xa'u? Because cmavo starting with "x" are all reserved for experimental/personal/ idiosyncratic use. -- Anyway, governments are marginal || John Cowan outside totalitarian states, though || http://www.reutershealth.com attention is always focused on them || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to direct it away from what matters. \\ -- Noam Chomsky (1995)