From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Aug 14 10:43:52 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 14 Aug 2001 17:43:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 13019 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2001 17:41:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Aug 2001 17:41:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 17:41:57 -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 NAA28594; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:43:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B7962C3.3040601@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:41:23 -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: Jay Kominek Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] selma'o considered harmful References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Jay Kominek wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, John Cowan wrote: >>Originally "du" was in its own selma'o, DU, and was permitted only >>as a selbri_B_132 (IIRC). But I somewhat hastily over-generalized it >>into selma'o GOhA, thus permitting some highly dubious constructs like >>tanru with du. >> > > Highly dubious? > > It seems like it could be useful to make quick and imperfect statements > about kinds of equality. > > {mi junta du do} It would be better to use dunli in such a case. -- 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