From LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:51:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Received: (qmail 6659 invoked from network); 21 Feb 1997 21:59:41 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se (192.36.125.6) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with SMTP; 21 Feb 1997 21:59:41 -0000 Received: from segate.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <12.60DEBE21@SEGATE.SUNET.SE>; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 22:59:38 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:49:46 -0500 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral Subject: Author's Alteration #10 X-To: Lojban List To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 1654 Lines: 46 Message-ID: <3vDrk_vm7cI.A.KuH.jz0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org> The following Author's Alteration (the change is semantic, and therefore cannot be called a Typo Correction) has been agreed on by lojbab, Nora, and me. (I'll be consulting pc today; we expect that he will agree as well.) The issue is whether the gismu list or the reference grammar is to be preferred in the x1 argument of "jetnu" and "jitfa". The gismu list states that x1 is a "du'u" --- a proposition, or sentence meaning --- as opposed to a "se du'u" --- a sentence. The cmavo of the di'u-series in selma'o KOhA refer to sentences, not propositions: a prefixed "la'e" must be used to refer to the proposition. Two examples in Chapter 7 violate this rule. Technically, the book is baselined and the gismu list place structures are not, so the strictly conformant thing to do is to change the gismu list to make it sentences rather than propositions. However, the Ad Hoc Committee mentioned above agrees that this would be the Wrong Thing, so we are changing the book as specified by the following plaintext diff: < .i di'u jitfa > .i di'u jitfa jufra < The-previous-utterance is-false. > The-previous-utterance is-a-false sentence.. < 4.4) dei jetnu < This-utterance is-true. > 4.4) dei jetnu jufra > This-utterance is-a-true sentence. < 4.5) do'i jetnu < Some-utterance is-true. > 4.5) do'i jetnu jufra > Some-utterance is-a-true sentence. A revised version of chap7.html has been uploaded, and the hrefgram.zip has been updated. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban