Re: Cowan denounces "je'a xi <number>"

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

mi pu cusku di'e

> > 3)  That I do not and will not propose assigning meaning (fuzzy or
> >     otherwise) to "je'a xi <number>" (it's already grammatical).

la .and. cusku di'e

> (3) doesn't make sense. It's grammatical, but you won't assign it
> meaning? Why do you want it to be grammatical and meaningless?

I should have said "will not propose an assigned meaning for"
rather than "will not propose assigning meaning to".

In response to the complaint that "ja'a xi <number>" is idiomatic:
>all< uses of "xi" are idiomatic.  There is no way to know that"daxire" is distinct from "da" but "sexire" is not distinct from "se",
except to read the refgrammar.