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Re: TECH: PROPOSED GRAMMAR CHANGE 38: lambda via new selma'o CEhU
- To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
- Subject: Re: TECH: PROPOSED GRAMMAR CHANGE 38: lambda via new selma'o CEhU
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:54:36 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <199512062118.QAA13760@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Dec 6, 95 09:03:55 pm
mi joi la .and. cusku be di'e casnu
> > Because lojbab noted that [du'u] could be brought into NU by changing
> > "du'u" to "le du'u".
>
> !! Okay, yes - after all, it is true that it could be brought into NU.
> But why was it thought a good thing (bearing in mind that it very much
> isn't)?
Simplicity and uniformity.
> Can we move it back, please? [I will assume the answer is that
> the milk is split & it's too late to mop it up.]
Yes, plus simplicity and uniformity. There is no Lojban mechanism that
takes a bridi and makes it a sumti; it always passes through a selbri
stage first. (Quotators don't count: their operands are texts or words
or noises/marks.)
--
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
e'osai ko sarji la lojban.