Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Help!! learning Lojban

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:46:17 -0400 (EDT)

A.W.T. scripsit:

> Exact - and this should have been pointed to since long, since AFAIK {bu'u=
> } never ever appeared to be used in this sense in favour of 
> idiomatical(?) {vi}! Why?

Mostly because "vi" is very old -- it goes back to 1960 at least, and "bu'u"
was added almost at the last minute.

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John Cowan [email-masked]
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