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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The only question is about using the commonly used variables of shape "V" >> - if we are also doing things like using free variables to create the >> passive voice so to speak, we have to be careful about that. The sentence >> "na la xrja nlceka" intended as "pigs aren't liked", under a certain context >> might mean "the woman with the red hat doesn't like pigs". So maybe we >> should set aside or some "V'V" or "Vy"or "aw" for the purpose of an >> explicitly unbound variable indicating something like "zo'e". > > If "oy" were selected to be the explicitly not-allowed-to-be-bound > variable, then adding "oy" to any predicate would assume a "loy smoy" > binding, and any other binding would be illicit. OK, but I'm using "o'e" for now since I want to keep "y" and "w" reserved. So far we have: a'a implicitly bound by la'a mslfa'a e'e implicitly bound by le'e rslfe'e e'u implicitly bound by le'u prne'u o'e implicitly bound by lo'e smo'e (I'll drop "i'o" as a bad idea.) mu'o mi'e xorxes