From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Jun 12 11:47:37 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 12 Jun 2001 18:47:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 14195 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2001 18:46:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 12 Jun 2001 18:46:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 12 Jun 2001 18:46:47 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06310; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:50:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B2662E8.3020609@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:43:52 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Llambias Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: zi'o and modals References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Jorge Llambias wrote: > la rab cusku di'e > >>I now see that because zi'o actually eradicates the place it is not >>necessary >>to switch it back, so it is simply a {zilvelbotpi}. > > But if you don't switch it back, the place for the bottle is x3, > isn't it? Wouldn't it have to be {terzilvelbotpi} to have it > back in x1? The convention (Chapter 7) is to use a number rafsi after the zil. So to remove x4, use zilvonbotpi. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein