From cowan@ccil.org Mon Aug 20 17:06:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 21 Aug 2001 00:06:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 60884 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2001 00:05:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Aug 2001 00:05:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Aug 2001 00:05:28 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15Yz2y-000625-00; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:05:32 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Brochure updates In-Reply-To: <20010820185834.A1902@twcny.rr.com> from Rob Speer at "Aug 20, 2001 06:58:34 pm" To: rob@twcny.rr.com Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:05:32 -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 Rob Speer scripsit: > I see something which I would consider controversial - the lessons say, in > chapter 7, that it's incorrect to use {nu} where you should use {du'u}. I was > fairly sure that {du'u} is a specific type of {nu}, and in fact the only > abstractions which can't be blanketed under {nu} are {ka}, {jei}, and {ni}. Nope, "du'u" is "ka"'s sibling, and is not related to "nu" at all. The only subtypes of nu are the 4 event type abstractors, and perhaps li'i. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan