From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Aug 22 10:01:37 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5756 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2000 17:01:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Aug 2000 17:01:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2000 17:01:36 -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 NAA17429; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:01:30 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39A2B1C2.638EE0E6@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:00:50 -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: Invent Yourself , "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] va'u References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Invent Yourself wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote: > > > 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. > > Which cmavo exactly are in this set? All those of the form "xVV" (4), "xV'V" (25), and all those with more than three letters excluding apostrophes (uncountably many). Examples of the latter are ai'u, fau'a, zo'o'o'o. Cmavo with "y" in them other than "Cy" and "y'y" are also reserved, but are not authorized for experimental use (they're dangerous). -- 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)