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Subject: [lojban] Re: "Game", "Player"
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:43:47 +0100
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xorxes:
> With {ka'e} you make a statement of fact, not a rule. A rule has to
> allow or forbid something. 

Most or many linguists see language rules as like a game's rules, and
the majority of these linguists see language rules not as allowing or
forbidding but simply as defining (what counts as a sentence of the
language; what counts as a playing of the game).

So if you (implicitly) add to Craig's rules a clause "ro da go da is
an instance of this game gi" and then list all the rules (appropriately
connected by ANDs and ORs), then Craig's ka'e would be preferable to e'a.

--And.