From ragnarok@pobox.com Sun Jun 10 19:45:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 11 Jun 2001 02:45:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 90215 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2001 02:45:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Jun 2001 02:45:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.246) by mta1 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 02:45:26 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A0CCF276006A; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 22:45:32 -0400 Reply-To: To: Subject: selma'o Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 22:45:28 -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 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" coi rodo Why do we need selma'o? I've been learning better by ignoring them, and I'm sure if we had native speakers then when they were little babies learning lojban., all selma'o would do is confuse them. They probably wouldn't even learn them! They don't seem to serve any real purpose, either. Is there something I'm missing, or was it just "Hey, let's put the cmavo in these groups we don't need for no reason!" --la kreig.daniyl 'segu temci fa le bavli gi mi'o ba renvi lo purci .i ga la fonxa cu janbe gi du mi' -la djimis.BYFet pgp public key ID: 0x5C3A1E74