From rob@twcny.rr.com Sat Apr 14 09:34:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 14 Apr 2001 16:34:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 18385 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2001 16:34:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Apr 2001 16:34:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.121) by mta3 with SMTP; 14 Apr 2001 16:34:41 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f3EGWLm01604 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:32:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.95.175.122]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:32:21 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14oSy5-00013O-00 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:32:13 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:32:13 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Cmavo to never use Message-ID: <20010414123213.A475@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer (in response to http://balance.wiw.org/~jkominek/lojban/9411/msg00275.html) I disagree that {la'i} is useless. Things that might share other characteristics because of sharing a name would be _objects_ that are named. {le karce vecnu pu vecnu la'i porc.} - The car salesman sold a set of Porsches. In fact, because of this, I think that there should be a {la} equivalent to {lo'e} and {le'e}. Using xa'e for this purpose (is it used already?) you could say something like {xa'e pakrd. bel. poi skami cu spofu} - "The typical Packard Bell computer is broken." -- Rob Speer