From lojbab@lojban.org Tue Aug 21 22:30:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 22 Aug 2001 05:30:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 39359 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2001 05:30:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Aug 2001 05:30:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2001 05:30:29 -0000 Received: from user.lojban.org (209-8-89-77.dynamic.cais.com [209.8.89.77]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7M5UR153035 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:30:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010822012700.00d468d0@pop.cais.com> X-Sender: vir1036@pop.cais.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:28:29 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] x3 of du'u In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 02:26 AM 8/22/01 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: >la xod cusku di'e > >If ka really is du'u, but now a controversial x2 ka is being discussed, > >does that become the x3 of du'u? > >No, x2 of ka would only work for single-ce'u ka. That's 99.99% >of the times one might want to use ka, I think. > >The only time I remember needing 2-ce'u properties is with {simxu}, >does anybody else have an example where one would need them? >(I don't mean some statement about the language itself, but >something one might say in everyday talk.) Any 3-ce'u at all? This sounds like the death knell of x2 for ka, if there exists a known ka (simxu) that it could not apply to. lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org