Message-Id: <199709302238.RAA23645@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Logical Language Group Date: Tue Sep 30 17:38:58 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: "Nearly Correct" (was New thread, anyone?) X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1671 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Sep 30 17:38:58 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Lee Crocker and I had an exchange following on his private mailing to me on jbidra vs drajbi. Here are my portions. >>That leaves two choices: >> >> jbidra j1=d1 d2 d3 j2=d4 , and >> drajbi d1=j1 d4=j2 j3 d3 >> >>Even though the former is simpler (being identical to its >>tertau in structure--and really unneeded as a lujvo for that >>reason) > >I'm not sure what you mean by "unneeded as a lujvo" based on place structure >arguments. jbidra would not mean the same as "drani" even though the >places are numbered in parallel. jbidra does notcover every possible >interpreation of "jbini drani" which is subject to whatever form of >imaginative > >tanru connections one can come up with which still preserve the drani places. > >jbidra is a particular kind of jibni drani. > >The problem is that there are other valid interpretations of the tanru that >have potential use. jibni drani (near-correct) could be contrasted with "far >co rrect - a kind of correctness>associated with being far from something. >For the reverse, there is the contrast between a correct-approximation and >an incorrect approximation which could justify lujvo for those terms. > >There are no easy answers, alas. > >lojbab lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: ftp.access.digex.net /pub/access/lojbab or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/" Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.