From ragnarok@pobox.com Fri Aug 03 09:24:40 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 3 Aug 2001 16:24:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 27229 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2001 16:22:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 3 Aug 2001 16:22:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.246) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Aug 2001 16:22:36 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id AFE93CC00080; Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:23:05 -0400 Reply-To: To: Subject: commands Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:22:35 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" coi rodo On the Portland Pattern Repository's wiki, it was observed that there is no way to express an imperative in lojban without using ko. Ko has no plural, and so you can't say 'you all imperative' type constructions, a la 'Disperse, ye rebels, disperse!' Therefore, I have just proposed on the Lojban wiki a cmavo, xu'a, which would function like xu but make the bridi a command, allowing plural imperatives and statements like 'let's go.' Clearly we need commands other than ko, which is actually rather limited. 1. Am I unknowingly inventing a way to do something that can really already be done? 2. What do you think of this proposal, if I'm not? --la kreig.daniyl. 'segu le bavli temci gi mi'o renvi lo purci .i ga le fonxa janbe gi du mi' -la djimis.BYFet xy.sy. gubmau ckiku nacycme: 0x5C3A1E74