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| In a message dated 10/16/2002 9:26:01 AM Central Daylight Time, cowan@hidden.email writes: << > > la BALtazar cu me le ci nolraitru >> Oops, yes; it should be {du pa}. << The Randall Holmes "me" means "x1 is among the referents of the governed sumti", and so is not referentially transparent. >> Whether it is referentially transparent or not depends on the sumti, but once we can get a connection to the referent of the sumti (and we always can) {me} is a waste of a good cmavo. JCB had it right originally and it was foolish (not to mention superfluous) to have changed it. {me} should be the brivla relativized in {pe}, as intended. (Maybe I should quit bitching and just invent a new -- longer -- cmavo for the purpose: {pe'e'e} sounds to me like "posesses" (with a bad lisp) and sorta fits in with And's most useful recent weirdness, {poi'i} -- which I like a lot.) |