From cowan@ccil.org Tue Jun 05 17:21:14 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 6 Jun 2001 00:21:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 51134 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 00:21:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Jun 2001 00:21:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 00:21:13 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 157R4X-0002cu-00; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 20:21:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] More lexing curiosities - la'i within cmene? In-Reply-To: <20010605214831.A262@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> from Richard Curnow at "Jun 5, 2001 09:48:31 pm" To: Richard Curnow Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:21:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Richard Curnow scripsit: > The reference grammar makes specific mention of "la", "lai" and "doi" > not being allowed within cmene if preceded by a vowel. > > Why does the same rule not apply to la'i? It does a fortiori, since "la'i" contains "la". -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter