From jcowan@reutershealth.com Sun May 20 12:18:25 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 20 May 2001 19:18:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 70631 invoked from network); 20 May 2001 19:18:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 20 May 2001 19:18:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 20 May 2001 19:18:24 -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 PAA03408; Sun, 20 May 2001 15:21:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B081802.2020405@reutershealth.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 15:16:18 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] djan. melbi vecnu References: <49.bc01ea3.283970c5@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan pycyn@aol.com wrote: > I suppose it is grammatical, but it is bad form: preneces should have > follow-up: {ny} or {fi ny} in the brivla proper (cf. earlier rants about > missing sumti) Not at all. The "zo'u" construct can be either a logical prenex or a topic in a topic-comment sentence. -- 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