| response to nick on PU/BAI (1848 words) |
 | Lexeme BAI derives from what Jim Brown called 'modal relative phrases', which is why I call them 'modals' (these words may at one time have been found only in relative phrases, i.e, those attached to sumti with "pe" and "ne", but their use in Lojban has far outgrown these limits). |
| Since the causals and modals were grammatically related, it was easy to merge the two completely, allowing conversion and negation to operate on the lexeme BAI members, and tying their meanings to the place structures of the source gismu (or tanru in the case of "ci'a"). |
| In other words, we went from inflection "pu" to "puku" to "pu lenu klama", whereas we went from "mu'i lenu klama" to "mu'iku" to "mu'i" as an inflection. |
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