From cowan@ccil.org Sat Jun 23 21:46:07 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 24 Jun 2001 04:46:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 26312 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2001 04:46:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 Jun 2001 04:46:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 24 Jun 2001 04:46:06 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15E1mr-0006aR-00; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:46:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Help!! learning Lojban In-Reply-To: <9h215i+43qi@eGroups.com> from "A.W.T." at "Jun 23, 2001 12:13:38 pm" To: "A.W.T." Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:46:17 -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 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. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter