From jcowan@reutershealth.com Thu Aug 23 09:47:03 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 23 Aug 2001 16:47:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 1547 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2001 16:40:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 23 Aug 2001 16:40:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 23 Aug 2001 16:40:11 -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 MAA00083; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:41:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B8531B4.60609@reutershealth.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:39:16 -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: Robin Lee Powell Cc: John Cowan , Nick NICHOLAS , lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du' References: <20010823091624.B31850@digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Robin Lee Powell wrote: > You don't have children, do you? "No, only one a year." Actually, I have one (bidialectal). > Note that "That movie is _the_ bomb" is a linguistic reversal slang I've only ever seen this in print in Brit contexts. -- 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