Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sun, 24 Oct 1993 09:54:49 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sun, 24 Oct 1993 09:54:45 -0400 Message-Id: <199310241354.AA02805@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 6656; Sun, 24 Oct 93 09:52:42 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 7339; Sun, 24 Oct 93 09:55:38 EDT Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1993 09:54:06 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: response to And - old posting culture-specifcity X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Sun Oct 24 05:54:06 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET And wrote a while ago: >But I am out of my depth here, and should cede the field to those who >eat lambda calculus for breakfast (along with their 3 shredded wheat >[culture-specific reference: a pity there's no .UI to mark this]). There is: ka'u UI2 I know culturally evidential: I know by cultural means (myth or custom) which marking a phrase would clearly indicate that you know that the phrase is relevant because of your cultural knowledge. In combination with other UIs, you could be more specific, of course. (e.g. zo'oka'u is a joke that is culture-specific. Marking a sentence as a whole, the UI probably is more solidly evidential expressing a culture basis for the claim of the sentence. Only my opinion lojbab lojbab