Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:17:26 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712112317.SAA10365@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Lee Daniel Crocker Sender: Lojban list From: "Lee Daniel Crocker (none)" Organization: Piclab (http://www.piclab.com/) Subject: Re: Beginner question on meaning of "le ... xu ku" and "le X-To: Lojban Group To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <199712112258.OAA29407@red.colossus.net> from "Thanatos" at Dec 11, 97 03:37:40 pm X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 849 X-From-Space-Date: Thu Dec 11 18:17:28 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU > I still haven't decided if {ma xu mlatu} could be meaningful in a > strange way. Expressing incredulity? Just idle thoughts. :) I rather like that, actually. "Is it actually true, what you're about to answer to my question?" Or maybe "Fill in the blanks with what you think fits, but then examine whether that really makes the statement true or not." That's kind of an ahead-of- time {ianai}, i.e., rather than expressing incredulity in the statement, it implies a follow-up question to the one being asked without really expressing an opinion. -- Lee Daniel Crocker "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC