From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Feb 05 08:45:03 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_2_1); 5 Feb 2001 16:44:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 42146 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2001 16:44:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Feb 2001 16:44:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2001 17:45:27 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17508; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:46:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A7ED859.4010902@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:44:09 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010119 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Llambias Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] su'u References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Jorge Llambias wrote: > do catlu be le nu mi klama > > could parse as: do (catlu be le nu mi) klama No, that is impossible. NU has to be followed by a bridi, which must include a selbri. > or as: do catlu be le nu (mi klama) That's the only possible parse. To express the meaning of the first case would require: do catlu be le nu mi co'e cu klama where cu could be replaced by be'o or kei. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein