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On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:54:27PM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote: > I don't know what al this stuff is, but it all does sound like something > that needs fixing. Your first point is something that I consider of high > importance. Drives me nuts that some Loglan words are so long. I would > hope that we can make the grammar as terse as possible. Now, we can't say > Go vol dorm. I want to sleep. Much as I'd like to. But we can say > go vol ke dorm, Or can we? Seems like we need to or ta in there. Nope; the direction we're going with 'ke' includes the article in it, so "go vol ke dorm" would be entirely correct. I seem to recall that And has demonstrated on the Lojban list that there is no meaning in the article for something uncountable like an event, so I don't think this will cause any problems. But speaking of articles - what is 'te' used for? -- Rob Speer