X-Digest-Num: 72 Message-ID: <44114.72.419.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:14:52 -0500 From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" Subject: Re: Dao De Jing [was Re: Promoting Lojban] X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 419 Content-Length: 704 Lines: 20 At 10:06 AM 2/23/99 +0800, Lin Zhemin wrote: >From: Lin Zhemin >la xorxes. cusku di'e >> Lojban. A common example is "this sentence is false", if the sentence >> is true, then it must be false, but if it is false, then it has to be true! >> That's as easy to say in Lojban: {dei jitfa}, as in any other language. > >So why bother Bob wrote in the brochure the following paragraph? > > Lojban supports metalinguistic discussion about the sentences being > spoken while remaining unambiguous. ("This sentence is not true" need > not be a paradox in Lojban.) (Line 189-191, Brochure) Because in Lojban you can avoid the paradox with "sei dei jitfa" lojbab