Message-ID: <3469EBA3.106B@locke.ccil.org> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:47:15 -0500 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Events & sisku [was: le/lo] References: <199711120302.WAA21555@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 643 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Nov 12 12:47:15 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - la xorxes. cusku di'e > Yes, perhaps that would be clearer, although I think it would > be too restrictive to say that nu could only refer to events that > actually happen. Indeed. Events don't have to happen, although it has to be *logically possible* for them to happen, I think; there is no "lo nu li re su'i re du li mu". > I wouldn't know how I would say "I'm looking for my hat" > with the new definition, if I wore one. mi sisku le ka [ce'u] du le mapku po mi I look-for-thing-with-property the property-of being the hat belonging-to me. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban