From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri May 19 11:14:25 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18796 invoked from network); 19 May 2000 18:14:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 19 May 2000 18:14:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta2 with SMTP; 19 May 2000 18:14:25 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@skunk.reutershealth.com [204.243.9.153]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19146 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 14:14:23 -0400 (EDT) Sender: cowan@mail.reutershealth.com Message-ID: <39258475.D3286F29@reutershealth.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:14:13 -0400 Organization: Reuters Health Information X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] RECORD: emotions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan "James F. Carter" wrote: > In Lojban, how do you tag a bridi to indicate that it's performative? There's an evidential for "true by definition", which when attached to non-definitions makes them performatives, i.e. true because I say so. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)