From pycyn@aol.com Sat Oct 07 10:07:18 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_0_3); 7 Oct 2000 17:07:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 9421 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2000 17:07:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Oct 2000 17:07:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r05.mail.aol.com) (152.163.225.5) by mta2 with SMTP; 7 Oct 2000 17:07:18 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.26.) id a.cc.af9da4e (3926) for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 13:07:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 13:07:15 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] RE: "except the cat" To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4521 In a message dated 00-10-07 12:06:39 EDT, xorxes writes: << Yes, all that is logical, but too cumbersome in many cases. What I would want is something to tag a sumti as an exception, I don't want to have to write two logically connected sentences. >> Well then, maybe you ought not be involved in a logical langauge, where the rule is use logic wherever possible -- or at least have a clearly defined connection to logic. So, can you define the connection for your proposed form? I have not seen it, nor are the suggestions one that suggest such a connection. But you don't need a whole sentence, just a sumti connection {ro da onoi le mlatu} say.