From araizen@newmail.net Fri May 25 03:06:16 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: araizen@newmail.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 25 May 2001 10:06:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 13063 invoked from network); 25 May 2001 10:06:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 May 2001 10:06:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mu.egroups.com) (10.1.1.40) by mta1 with SMTP; 25 May 2001 10:06:15 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: araizen@newmail.net Received: from [10.1.4.69] by mu.egroups.com with NNFMP; 25 May 2001 10:06:15 -0000 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:06:15 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Lessons Message-ID: <9elaqn+g70d@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 465 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 12.81.160.156 From: "Adam Raizen" la xod cusku di'e > Nick, I hope you're teaching the newbies to use "va'o" for what they think > "if, then" is, instead of "ganai, gi" or whatever the misleading > formal-logic conditional is. > Unfortunately, not everyone agrees that "va'o" is the way to go for non-logical conditions. Maybe the best thing to do is to say that you can't say "if" in lojban without having someone misinterpret you, so don't make conditional statements. :-) mu'o mi'e adam