From araizen@newmail.net Sat Apr 14 13:58:12 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: araizen@newmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 14 Apr 2001 20:58:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 52607 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2001 20:58:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Apr 2001 20:58:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mk.egroups.com) (10.1.1.30) by mta1 with SMTP; 14 Apr 2001 20:58:12 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: araizen@newmail.net Received: from [10.1.10.66] by mk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 14 Apr 2001 20:58:12 -0000 Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:58:08 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: selma'o CA'A Message-ID: <9badl0+jhkd@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 453 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 62.0.180.4 From: "Adam Raizen" Responding to xorxes list of cmavo never to use: http://balance.wiw.org/~jkominek/lojban/9411/msg00275.html I think that the CA'A cmavo are separate from the PU cmavo (just like the ZA'O and other tense cmavo are), and I don't see the difference between "pu'i" and "ca'a". On the other hand, "nu'o" means "ka'e je ca'anai", which is a well-defined and maybe even useful concept, though I'm not really sure it deserved its own cmavo. co'o mi'e adam