Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 00:08:34 -0400
From: Logical Language Group <lojbab>
Message-Id: <199407260408.AA09710@access1.digex.net>
To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU
Subject: Re: To be or not to be? Coffee or tea?
Cc: lojbab@access.digex.net, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu
Status: RO
X-From-Space-Date: Tue Jul 26 00:08:45 1994
X-From-Space-Address: lojbab

I vaguely suspect that this argument is along the lines of the old
"John seeks a bicycle or a fish", where the question of intensionality
comes into play.  Cowan wrote at length on that issue a long time ago and
I think we have it covered.

Pragmatically, though, to answer a "ji" with ".a" you had better then
prepared to accept either.  If you want tea, you need to say "na'e", or
perhaps se.u  (that shoudl have been na.e on the last line).

lojbab