From a.rosta@pmail.net Sat Jan 29 11:03:39 2000 X-Digest-Num: 348 Message-ID: <44114.348.1871.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:03:39 -0000 From: "And Rosta" Subject: RE: Subjunctive! X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 1871 > From: Invent Yourself > > Issue 1: > I think the problem is the glossing of TFTT as "if, then". Hence me &, I notice, Jorge, change "if p then q" to "q or not p". > If this does not really correlate to the English meaning, why is it taught > that way? I don't know. Some linguists have argued that English "if" does mean logical IF, semanticaly, and that all the possible-worldsy stuff is supplied pragmatically. Still, that's far from obvious, and logical IF in terms of the confusion it causes is more trouble than it's worth. > Issue 2: > If the proper way to express the millionaire concept is by va'o, what > actual use does ganai, gi have? Just to give you a bit of choice with your connectives. --And.