The dreaded word "only"

["Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!shoulson>]

   Date:         Fri, 17 Jan 1992 14:05:23 +1100
   From: Major <major%PTA.PYRAMID.COM.AU@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu>
   "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU> writes:
   > "lat." is not a valid cmene for the same reason as above (tho in
   > this case it's hard to see how it would break up; even if you
   > consider it to be syllabic [with buffer vowel], I doubt most would accept
   > "t." as a cmene).
   "T" is the name of the truth constant in most implementations of lisp.
   A discussion of a lisp program might well want to refer to "the thing
   named 'T'". Moral: No exceptions! Dig a hole and someone *will* fall
   in it.

I agree that there should be no exceptions, my comment was only tangential.
However, I don't think that even ardent LISPers will use "la t." to name
the truth value.  After all, in English we call it "T", pronouncing it /ti/
and not /t/; that is, calling it by the letter's name.  The letter "T" has
a name in Lojban, "ty".  That's not a valid cmene, and it can't be used
after "la", but it's a small matter to make it "la tyt.", a far more
pronouncable name.  More likely, however, people would probably just use
"ty", just like you can use "ny" or "xy" for variables in a mathematical
expression.  I doubt you need to resort to cmene here.

   Major

~mark
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Mark E. Shoulson:  shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu