From martin.bays@christ-church.oxford.ac.uk Sun Oct 31 13:35:36 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:35:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallback0.mail.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.175]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CONMH-0002tC-B4 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:35:29 -0800 Received: from tx0.mail.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.163]) by fallback0.mail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CONMF-0001pe-Nq for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:35:27 +0000 Received: from scan0.mail.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.162] helo=localhost) by tx0.mail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1CONM4-0003j0-1J for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:35:16 +0000 Received: from rx0.mail.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.161]) by localhost (scan0.mail.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.162]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 13497-09 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:35:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dh178.chch.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.120.178] helo=chch.ox.ac.uk) by rx0.mail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1CONM2-0003iq-0Y for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:35:14 +0000 Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:35:12 +0000 From: Martin Bays To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: as far as anyone knows Message-ID: <20041031213512.GA20855@thedave.chch.ox.ac.uk> References: <200410311616.21413.phma@phma.hn.org> <20041031212031.GI14527@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041031212031.GI14527@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-PGP-Key: http://mbays.freeshell.org/pubkey.asc X-PGP-KeyId: B5FB2CD6 X-cunselcu'a-valsi: tsiju User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-archive-position: 8899 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jboste@zugzwang.port5.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list * Sunday, 2004-10-31 at 13:20 -0800 - Robin Lee Powell : > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 05:16:21PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > How do you say "as far as I know" or "as far as anyone knows"? The > > example is "Basque is not related to any other language as far as > > anyone knows", {lo skalduna bangu na ckini lo drata bangu [li'o]}. > > I'm not sure whether to use {du'o} or an evidential. > > I would use {du'o ro remna} or similar. Not in scope of that {na} you wouldn't!