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Posted by rlpowell on Sun 13 of Feb, 2005 21:41 GMT posts: 14214

Again, why didn't you do this *before* the section was voted on and
closed? The voting was open for *weeks*.

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:36:57PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:46:59 -0800, webmaster@lojban.org
> <webmaster@lojban.org> wrote:
> > ;za'e (BAhE): Nonce word follows. Forethought nonce-word
> > indicator. Indicates that the next word is a nonce creation or
> > is nonstandard in some way. For grammatical purposes, "za'e"
> > binds with and marks the following word but does not change its
> > nature.
> ...
> > doi grizis mi tcidu za'e la ralcku
> > Grizis, I read what I'll call "The Book".
>
> This looks to me as if {za'e} applies to {la ralcku}, while the
> explanation with its use of "word" would lead me to apply {za'e}
> only to {la}... which is correct?

The latter. I'm not cure it matters.

> If {za'e} applies only to {la}, then {ralcku} is not marked, so I
> suppose the speaker is saying "I'm using {la}, which usually marks
> names, but I'm using that gadri in a non-standard way. This
> non-standard gadri will apply to the perfectly-normal brivla
> {ralcku}."

Seems like a perfectly acceptable interpretation in this case, yeah.
Might have been a bit clearer with za'e one place over, though.

-Robin

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:11:08 -0800, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> Again,

Again? I hadn't seen an earlier question from you. (Though in the mean
time I have; it was "later" since there were later messages in that
conversation, so I came to it later.)

> why didn't you do this *before* the section was voted on and
> closed?

Because I didn't feel responsible for it. And I didn't think I was
proposing any changes when I asked those questions the other day.

> The voting was open for *weeks*.

I didn't think I had a vote.

mu'o mi'e .filip.
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