From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Jul 30 08:37:08 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 30 Jul 2001 15:37:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 16187 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2001 15:37:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 Jul 2001 15:37:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 Jul 2001 15:37:05 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23221; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:39:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B657F1E.40704@reutershealth.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:37:02 -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] Tidying notes on {goi} References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Jorge Llambias wrote: > But {bi'u} already has a different function there. In {le bi'u nanmu > goi ko'a}, we want ko'a to be the one that gets assigned the referent > of {le bi'u nanmu}, not the other way around. Yes, of course; I was too elliptical. I meant "le nanmu goi bi'u ko'a" marks "ko'a" (the dependent of goi) as definiens; of course "bi'unai" would mark it as definiendum. -- 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