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on 4/29/02 11:26 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > 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 certainly like the way it sounds. > 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. I hope this is true. It certainly sounds better. Going back to the Loglan grammar, tho, it seems to be possible to say 'ne po godzo', 'one event of going.' I wonder if we can say that with ke? > > But speaking of articles - what is 'te' used for? Te is a bit of a holdover from Chinese Ceqli when I wanted to make a word clearly a noun form without specifying anything further. Probably no need for it now. The current t-words so far are: to - the (loglan 'le') ta - a, some (loglan 'lo') ti - name marker (loglan 'la') I'm sure there's a handy use for 'te' somewhere. -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/