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And Rosta scripsit: > As an aside, John says that the Incredibly Bad Idea about the scope > of ku-less na was down to Lojbab's prescription. But how did we let > this happen? When I joined the Project in 1989 (just about when the list began), the grammar of NA was as it is today. When writing what became the negation chapter of CLL, I asked Lojbab how and why the grammar changed from Loglan's initial "no" (non-initial "no" typically meant "na'e", as the na/na'e distinction does not exist in Loglan, but sometimes "na bo"). He replied that it had been changed for greater naturalism. This does not exactly pinpoint whodunit: it might have been any of the following: Lojbab, Nora, Jeff Taylor (YACC author), or possibly another of the very early Lojbanists. Since nobody protested, nothing got changed. -- All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part John Cowan that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part www.ccil.org/~cowan that cooks with olive oil, and the part that www.reutershealth.com cooks with butter. -- David Chessler jcowan@hidden.email