From cowan Mon Nov 20 11:37:01 1995 Subject: Re: How jai and tu'a work From: John Cowan To: ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK, lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 11:37:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199511182240.RAA08726@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Nov 18, 95 09:53:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 668 Status: OR Message-ID: la .and. cusku di'e > > tu'a la lojbab. bapli lenu mi'o tavla bau la lojban. > > (some event concerning Lojbab) forces (the event of me-you talk in Lojban) > > My maoste has {tua} = "the bridi implied by". To me a bridi is a du'u > - something that is true or false, not an event in the midst of a network > of interacting forces. I think there is a general confusion in jbobau > selsku between events and propositions. Don't get hung up on the keyword definitions in the lists, which are only mnemonic and not defining. "tu'a " is "le su'u co'e", that's defining. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.