From phma@oltronics.net Fri Aug 17 20:48:29 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 18 Aug 2001 03:48:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 22468 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2001 03:48:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 18 Aug 2001 03:48:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.69) by mta2 with SMTP; 18 Aug 2001 03:48:21 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 225B03C58D; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:30:26 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] mo Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:30:25 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010818051325.74bfa460.grey.havens@earthling.net> In-Reply-To: <20010818051325.74bfa460.grey.havens@earthling.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01081723302501.01556@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Friday 17 August 2001 23:13, Elrond wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering: since "mo" questions can be replied to using a tanru, I > believe that the meaning of several "mo" in a row (without "co" on either > side of the sequence) is the same as the meaning of only one. i.e. that "i > mo mo" and "i mo" have the same meaning. > Am I right ? > > I believed at first that gramatically allowing for several "mo" in a row > is useful for requesting an answer in the form of a n-word tanru (e.g. "mo > mo mo" -> at least 3 word tanru). However I cannot imagine any case where > it could be useful (except when requesting for a tanru instead of e.g a > one-word selbri -- the difference between a single "mo" and "mo mo" -- but > that case is already covered with "ta'u mo" so....) > > Any comments ? sumomo mo momo, momo mo momo, momo mo iroiro .i le se persika cu jutsi le se ricrprunu .i le se ricrprunu cu jutsi le se ricrprunu .i lei ricrprunu cu vrici .i le mugdali cu momo? mi'e pier.