From lojbab@lojban.org Tue Jun 12 04:25:02 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 12 Jun 2001 11:25:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 49029 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2001 11:24:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 Jun 2001 11:24:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-5.cais.net) (205.252.14.75) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 Jun 2001 11:24:59 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (35.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.35]) by stmpy-5.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5CBOwu31679 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:24:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612072144.00db3860@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:30:08 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [lojban] Purpose of bridi In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 12:06 AM 06/12/2001 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: >{nei} is just one of those useless cmavo occupying the short >form that should have gone to something more useful... Not knowing what the book says about it, I believe that nei was put in to simplify anaphora references in very complex, multi-levelled bridi. Its typical usage would be similar to "le go'i", and "le se go'i" for the previous bridi. It goes along with no'a for references to outer levels of nested bridi. Possibly there is a use for "le nu nei" or "lesedu'u nei" within a place of a bridi as well. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org