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

From: Rob Speer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:40:56 -0400

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