From @uga.cc.uga.edu:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Mon Nov 30 16:36:22 1992 Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 30 Nov 1992 21:40:40 -0500 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5970; Mon, 30 Nov 92 21:37:16 EST Received: from UGA.BITNET by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (Mailer R2.08 PTF008) with BSMTP id 5921; Mon, 30 Nov 92 21:37:15 EST Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 21:36:22 EST Reply-To: bob@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: Lojban list Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was bob@GRACKLE.STOCKBRIDGE.MA.US From: bob@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU Subject: The Distribution Problem: An Ambiguity? X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu, bob@grackle.stockbridge.ma.us To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: John Cowan's message of Mon, 30 Nov 1992 12:44:24 -0500 <9211301847.AA05639@albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Status: RO X-Status: Message-ID: 2) cmalu je nixli ckule little and girl school I read this distributively: it is a physically small school and a school with the character of a young female. No doubt it/she is an artificial intelligence or robot working as a school. No joke: I was thinking `girl school, how can a school be a girl? Ah... if it is alive; hence (since a school is not a human) it must be an AI.' I interpreted the tanru differently than usual, but I agree with John Cowan ``that "A je B C" must have the distributive reading''. Robert J. Chassell bob@gnu.ai.mit.edu Rattlesnake Mountain Road (413) 298-4725 or (617) 253-8568 or Stockbridge, MA 01262-0693 USA (617) 876-3296 (for messages)