Return-Path: <@segate.sunet.se:LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@BITMAIL.LSOFT.COM> Received: from segate.sunet.se by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0t0Q4z-0000ZUC; Wed, 4 Oct 95 11:25 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by segate.sunet.se (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 32A06267 ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 10:25:32 +0200 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: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199510040009.DAA10003@feast.fe.msk.ru>; from "Steven M. Belknap" at Tue, 3 Oct 1995 19:14:00 +0100 Content-Length: 669 Lines: 20 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'