From rob@twcny.rr.com Thu Aug 23 11:42:43 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@telenet.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 23 Aug 2001 18:42:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 6802 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2001 18:41:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Aug 2001 18:41:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO telenet.net) (204.97.152.225) by mta2 with SMTP; 23 Aug 2001 18:41:17 -0000 Received: from riff (ip-209-23-14-40.modem.logical.net [209.23.14.40]) by telenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA29293 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:41:15 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15ZzPV-0000Vr-00 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:40:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:40:56 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: ce'u co'e zo'e zo'e zo'e zo'e (was: status of ka (was Re: [lojban] x3 of du'u Message-ID: <20010823144056.C597@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com Sender: Rob Speer From: Rob Speer On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:14:54PM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > Yes. Or "le du'u ce'u klama". Which is exactly what you had been saying you > were planning to say anyway, so you lose nothing, but in "ka klama" gain an > easy way to say "ce'u ce'u ce'u ce'u ce'u klama" (which, btw, is not a > stilly thing to want to say; it is the sense of zo klama, and hence is something > one may well wish to talk about). And thus, {ka} goes from being a useful abstraction to a word solely usable for metalinguistic purposes. I bet if you keep working on it you can make {ka} rank right up there with {tei} and {lau}. -- Rob Speer