Re: ke'u[nai], va'i[nai]

[Logical Language Group <lojbab>]

> You might check ancient history.  It is possible that you raised the va'i issue
> in the past and we changed it back then, which is why you had it backwards.
> I'm sure this issue of scale direction has come up a couple of times before
> but I am not sure with which words.

Nope.  The whole idea of discursive scales didn't appear until the first
publication of the attitudinal paper in JL12, which already has "va'i" firmly
as "in other words", probably on Zipf grounds (although the paper doesn't
say).  The first complete cmavo list of mine (as opposed to Taylor's effort)
already postdated JL12.

I'm afraid the whole notion is simply a "braino" (as in typo) of mine, and there
is no accounting for it.

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