From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Aug 22 14:03:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 22 Aug 2001 21:03:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 86590 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2001 20:53:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Aug 2001 20:53:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2001 20:53:58 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA22027; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:55:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B841BB2.8040800@reutershealth.com> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:53:06 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick NICHOLAS Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du' References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Nick NICHOLAS wrote: > cu'u la djan: > >>And Rosta wrote: >> > >>>1. inside ka: fill every logically-present but syntactically absent >>>place with ce'u >>> > >>Certainly a plausible interpretation rule. >> > > So "le ka ce'u xendo" means by default "le ka ce'u xunre ce'u ce'u"? No, > that's not what you want. Ah. I was implicitly assuming that this rule was to apply only in the absence of explicit ce'us. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel