From jjllambias@hotmail.com Tue Jul 17 13:42:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jjllambias@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 17 Jul 2001 20:42:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 61167 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2001 20:41:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 17 Jul 2001 20:41:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.106) by mta1 with SMTP; 17 Jul 2001 20:41:36 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:41:36 -0700 Received: from 200.49.74.2 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:41:35 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.49.74.2] To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Subject: Re: [lojban] registry of experimental cmavo Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:41:35 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jul 2001 20:41:36.0104 (UTC) FILETIME=[DF21DE80:01C10F00] From: "Jorge Llambias" la lojbab cusku di'e > > >2. bridi-to-sumti converter > > > >Would something in selma'o LU do it? It could take more than a > >bridi, but I often find that I want to put more than a bridi > >inside a du'u. > >You can do that now: la'elu ...li'u Yes, except maybe for some possible scrambling of deixis. > >I can't think of a context where {le ge broda gi brode} would > >cause ambiguity. If it doesn't, I don't see why it should not > >be allowed. > >The ambiguity is that anything that is a sumti-tail is also a full sentence >(observative), and we have full sentence forethought connectives. That causes no ambiguity as far as I can see. Could you give an example? {lo ge ko'a broda gi ko'e brode} would simply be {da poi ke'a ge ko'a broda gi ko'e brode}. >It also >isn't clear when you would use a forethought sumti tail connective wherein >you couldn't use a sentence connective. I don't understand that sentence. Could you give an example? mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.