From xod@sixgirls.org Tue Aug 21 22:39:00 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 22 Aug 2001 05:39:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 1311 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2001 05:39:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Aug 2001 05:39:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2001 05:38:59 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7M5cr113821 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:38:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:38:53 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] x3 of du'u In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010822012700.00d468d0@pop.cais.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > 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. .uanaicai Did I miss something? ----- "It is not enough that an article is new and useful. The Constitution never sanctioned the patenting of gadgets. [...] It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures." -- Supreme Court Justice Douglas, 1950