Return-Path: <@FINHUTC.HUT.FI:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from FINHUTC.hut.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0qnaBx-00005XC; Thu, 22 Sep 94 01:31 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from FINHUTC.HUT.FI by FINHUTC.hut.fi (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7837; Thu, 22 Sep 94 01:29:39 EET Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin MAILER@SEARN) by FINHUTC.HUT.FI (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 7834; Thu, 22 Sep 1994 01:29:36 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7493; Thu, 22 Sep 1994 00:28:20 +0200 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 16:37:58 EDT Reply-To: jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: Jorge Llambias Subject: Re: any? (response to Desmond) X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 330 Lines: 11 la djan fanva di'e lo cizra mifra la gliban de'e > > (4) A man may eat an icecream. That would make him happy. > > 4) lo -man (modal) -eat loi -icecream gi'e -happy. All the others are debatable, because not much context is given, but in this one you are ignoring the causality clearly present in the English sentence. Jorge