From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Jul 09 12:00:14 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 9 Jul 2001 19:00:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 95187 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2001 18:59:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 9 Jul 2001 18:59:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta3 with SMTP; 9 Jul 2001 18:59:49 -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 PAA03314 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 15:00:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B49FC3F.3060407@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 14:47:27 -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: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] optional punctuation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan And Rosta wrote: > What do lone cmevla outside cmene expressions parse as? A bare cmevla is grammatical if it's a stand-alone text; the meaning is not clearly defined. Bare cmevla used to be vocatives, but this caused grammatical problems, so (the Loglan equivalent of) "doi" was introduced. > they have no other function, and I can't remember why not, or why > we are at such pains to make our cmene end in consonants. For morphological resolution. -- 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