From ragnarok@pobox.com Mon May 21 13:49:00 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 21 May 2001 20:49:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 1026 invoked from network); 21 May 2001 20:49:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 May 2001 20:49:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.246) by mta2 with SMTP; 21 May 2001 20:48:59 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id AF4CE89F0040; Mon, 21 May 2001 16:49:16 -0400 Reply-To: To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: djan. melbi vecnu Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:24:04 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: <9e9le7+5j9i@eGroups.com> X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" Make one up. Aren't there some cmavo that are reserved for experimental use? Use one of those, and tell us what so we understand you (well, the rest of the list. I'll need to wait till I can understand anything without staring at it for five minutes first) what cmavo it is. Maybe others will use it. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Raizen [mailto:araizen@newmail.net] Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 7:54 PM To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: [lojban] Re: djan. melbi vecnu la pycyn cusku di'e > > . For instance of the last, "la > > niu.IORK zo'u mi klama" can mean "As to New York, I went there" or "As to > > New > > York, I came from there". > > > 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) It would have been nice to have a pro-sumti which refers to whatever is in the prenex in a case like this. I think I'll try using "ce'u", since it kind of focuses the main bridi with regard to the prenex, though it probably would have been better to just have a different word. mu'o mi'e adam To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.