From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Dec 06 12:57:16 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:57:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [65.246.141.151] (helo=mail2.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18KPX5-0001lU-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:57:11 -0800 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA24792; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:08:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200212062108.QAA24792@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:56:40 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: [lojban] Re: Old questions, still unanswered... To: olivera@macs.biu.ac.il Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:56:40 -0500 (EST) Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <000001c29d65$39b81be0$0300a8c0@avitallap> from "Avital Oliver" at Dec 06, 2002 07:17:04 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 3160 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Avital Oliver scripsit: > a) Is "ko'a broda je brode" equivelant to "ko'a broda gi'e brode"? No, not reliably so. > b) Is "ko'a broda je brode" more semantically amgiuous than "ko'a broda gi'e > brode"? Yes. > c) Is "ko'a broda je brode" less semantically ambiguous than "ko'a broda > brode"? Yes. > d) Is true? > e) Is true? Depends on the implicit value of x3. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves." --Murray Gell-Mann