From cowan@ccil.org Fri Aug 17 21:04:29 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 18 Aug 2001 04:04:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 88320 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2001 04:04:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 18 Aug 2001 04:04:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1 with SMTP; 18 Aug 2001 04:04:28 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15XxLj-0001ec-00; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:04:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] mo In-Reply-To: <20010818051325.74bfa460.grey.havens@earthling.net> from Elrond at "Aug 18, 2001 05:13:25 am" To: Elrond Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 00:04:39 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Elrond scripsit: > 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. I think your arguments are perfectly sound. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter