Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id FAA23263 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 05:48:10 -0400 Message-Id: <199510040948.FAA23263@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 49BFDE5F ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 5:25:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 12:23:26 +0300 Reply-To: Cyril Slobin Sender: Lojban list From: Cyril Slobin Organization: Institute for Commercial Engineering Subject: Re: future tense X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu, "Steven M. Belknap" To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <199510040009.DAA10003@feast.fe.msk.ru>; from "Steven M. Belknap" at Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:14:00 +0100 Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Wed Oct 4 05:48:12 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU coi > possible that there really is no place such as Russia, (I've never been > there...) and its all a grand, apparently pointless conspiracy to convince > me there is a Russia. Or United States... :-) > Didn't Loglan distinguish between the prophetic sense of a future > occurence, and the predictive sense? I seem to remember that from the > latest edition of the Loglan textbook. There is a bunch of "evidentials" to express state of your knowlege - like "I hear", "I observe", "I opine" etc... co'o mi'e kir. -- Cyril Slobin `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, `it means just what I choose it to mean'