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On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote: > Noticing: > > da xrbna je lgja bnga "Xorban is the logical language". *A* logical language, let's not be too immodest. That makes lgj "logical" rather than a straight borrowing from Lojban. > ... I had a passing thought. Perhaps we can set an implicitly bound > variable: > > do'a xrbna "do'a xrbno'a", right? > ... from xOrbAn. Then we can say things like: > > cV bngo'ake'e > > ... instead of: > > cV do'a xrbna bngo'ake'e. I propose these to start with: ce'a: I hereby permit ce'e: I hearby exhort ce'i: I hereby command ce'o: I hereby request ce'u: I hereby suggest ce: I hereby direct (general purpose directive) ce'e da xrbna bngake'e > In the not-so-distant future, it will be important for this question to be > as concise as possible. Ah, I thought it was meant as an "e'osai ko sarji la lojban" sort of motto. I like "cu" for yes/no questions: cu da xrbna bngake'e I'm not sure how serious you are about o'a, but when we get to "this one" we can use that instead. mu'o mi'e xorxes