From biomass@hobbiton.org Sun Apr 15 03:57:31 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: biomass@hobbiton.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 15 Apr 2001 10:57:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 16805 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2001 10:57:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 15 Apr 2001 10:57:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO elrond.hobbiton.org) (216.161.236.97) by mta3 with SMTP; 15 Apr 2001 10:57:29 -0000 Received: from hobbiton.org (biomass@thorin.hobbiton.org [216.161.236.98]) by elrond.hobbiton.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f3FB01w22852 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 06:00:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (biomass@localhost) by hobbiton.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f3FAsup24870 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 05:54:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 05:54:56 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: biomass@thorin To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Cmavo to never use In-Reply-To: <20010414123213.A475@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Avital Oliver > 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." I agree. "The typical Mohammed is Muslim". But any other language does this without a 4-letter cmavo to do so. Is there no way to say, without a special cmavo, {xa'e moxamad. cu muslo}? And maybe even withou using la'i?