From cowan@ccil.org Tue Jun 05 17:28:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 6 Jun 2001 00:28:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 28183 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 00:28:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Jun 2001 00:28:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3 with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 00:28:04 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 157RBC-0002fL-00; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 20:28:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] sei In-Reply-To: <20010605181758.B940@twcny.rr.com> from Rob Speer at "Jun 5, 2001 06:17:58 pm" To: rob@twcny.rr.com Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:28:10 -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 Rob Speer scripsit: > Another thing I can't figure out is where the effect of {sei} ends. At the selbri. The grammar is "sei * ", and it makes a metalinguistic comment; in this case "said by so-and-so". > Does the Book describe using {sei} like this? Yes. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter