Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Fri, 6 Mar 92 14:51 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA07806; Fri, 6 Mar 92 14:45:21 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA21970; Thu, 5 Mar 92 17:02:40 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA11152; Thu, 5 Mar 92 17:02:34 EST Message-Id: <9203052202.AA11152@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 7926; Thu, 05 Mar 92 17:00:47 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 6711; Thu, 05 Mar 92 16:58:47 EST Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1992 14:05:42 GMT Reply-To: CJ FINE Sender: Lojban list From: CJ FINE Subject: Re: A Bulgarian spring custom X-To: shoulson@CTR.COLUMBIA.edu X-Cc: Lojban list To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: ; from "Mark E. Shoulson" at Mar 3, 92 10:33 am Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Fri Mar 6 14:52:12 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Ivan answering Mark commenting on Ivan: > >> > >> Note also that you're asserting the existence of a > >> sick person who is pale and/or flushed (can you be both?), > > >No, but so what? > > Nothing major, except that you used the inclusive or. Doesn't really > matter much, it's a matter of preference, and I'd very likely do the same. I am strongly in favour of using "a" for cases of "or" any time except when you're specifically concerned that the conjunction not be acceptable. Allowing a factually or pragmatically prohibited conjunction is no different from all the factually or pragmatically prohibited possibilities we import whenever we use any bridi that is not fully tensed or has omitted places. kolin