From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Feb 09 09:06:03 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:06:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JNt9O-00081j-Ap for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:06:02 -0800 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JNt9J-00081O-RU for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:06:01 -0800 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m16so1043785waf.20 for ; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:05:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=9KfrrBmd/iuBvkwD29J78eCOdURNhfliFW4+mjR1Y/4=; b=crYiquVTfNOJFX0laRwZygI7ox+OGXublyVATTwtbrX5yQ2FrzM/BHQ8dLjI5opYeXK4kDsFOfmc4+MUUZ3xSTgRz5ZFyIpyV2mcKH3R54sB6VTeBod6bVt4e3vDCpmxf4JeD292S/jr9VEOpugYuI2MWH5nvfbYv84FzBO5oQE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CJoQqlsG8oWT5YExSrmlHgEi3UNV812FjwEnpIYFEPxZxUFe3q6txgMpirobURBx5EdFTlWCJDFd2xWX4RaHrPwDEWtnFpQCUhdEKUj2s27KaXNjgsi+MMzKANO2FcxjZGK+8Nv+hgWDEVDSt67fHkyp7Hdk6wkJpvFDMBi2Mj0= Received: by 10.114.121.1 with SMTP id t1mr7056148wac.55.1202576755203; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:05:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.102.17 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 09:05:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <964b1fbe0802090905h45c9575awa1bb8d5abe9cb122@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 19:05:55 +0200 From: "Elmo Todurov" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Potentiality In-Reply-To: <97f5058c0802090838k38beef7arec3e6220db49a91d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <97f5058c0802090838k38beef7arec3e6220db49a91d@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14162 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: todurov@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On 2/9/08, Penguino wrote: > In English, there is a subtle, and grammatically confusing, distinction > between the sentences "John is a potential student", which means that John > might become a student in the future, and "John is potentially a student", > which means that John might or might not be a student now. > > How is this distinction made in Lojban? [la djan. ka'e binxo lo tadni] seems > right for the first sentence; is it right to use [ka'e] for the second: [la > djan. ka'e tadni]? I like your first sentence. However, I'd say la .djan. cumki tadni for the second. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.