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Re: Wallops #8
- To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Subject: Re: Wallops #8
- From: CJ FINE <cbmvax!uunet!bradford.ac.uk!C.J.Fine>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1992 14:04:27 BST
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "I.Alexander.bra0122@UK.CO.ICL.OASIS" at Jul 7, 92 1:10 pm
- Reply-To: CJ FINE <cbmvax!uunet!bradford.ac.uk!C.J.Fine>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!LOJBAN>
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>
> zoi by. Pray tell by. mintu le xomoi be lu pe'ipei li'u
> .ce'oku'i lu pe'upei li'u
>
> Am I missing out on some sort of rule for combination
> of UI? Up till now I've had the impression that UI
> are essentially independent, apart from a few which
> are specifically intended as modifiers.
> "pe'ipei" seems to mean "This is what I think - what about you?".
>
Yes you are missing something. There are a number which are specifically
intended as modifiers, and the rather special "pei" which on its own is
a "fill-in-the-place which-UK", but as an UI modifier restricts the
question to the scale of the specified UI.