From xod@sixgirls.org Fri Mar 02 17:45:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@erika.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 3 Mar 2001 01:45:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 5415 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2001 01:45:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 3 Mar 2001 01:45:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO erika.sixgirls.org) (209.208.150.50) by mta2 with SMTP; 3 Mar 2001 01:45:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by erika.sixgirls.org (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f231jRf29944 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:45:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:45:26 -0500 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Meaningless talk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 5686 On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > As far as I can figure, one of the topic of discussion was whether langauage > is langue or parole, the system of rules and items or the actual occasions of > use. The usual answer is that it is parole primarily and langue is just a > theory about that. But Lojban is different -- the langue is set and the > parole is way too small to justify the lange, and, indeed, often goes > contrary to it. But we reject the mistaken parole rather than correctin the > langue to justify them. And, as long as lack of syntactic ambiguity is a > goal, we will continue to do so. So, we can say that the aim of the game is > to express what you mean in grammatical Lojban. no da na tugni > > "Oy, the expriences are less than the typical opiner in the amount the paired > necessity observes" Oy, indeed. Just opaque and I can't see what to do with > it. xorxes says he understands but does not expatiate, alas. le mi pa srera zo'u su'u zgana .i mi djica zo selzgana .i pe'i mutce lojbo ki'u le du'u le stura cu sampu ci'e le lojbo .enai le glico > de ka'enai smuni be'o jo cumki fa le du'u de ka'e smuni fi ko'e> > Does this say that we make a certain assertion just in case a certain > condition is possible? Then we don't need the {be - be'o} but the conjunction > is sentential (as the different subjects also require. Or do we assert a > certain equivalence, which, because the subjects are still different, is > probably still going to require sentential connectives but some other more > complex gear as well to embed that connective in the {du'u} clause. The > first is grammatically more likely, the second contentually. But, whether > {ka'enai} denies {ka'e} or {smuni}, the whole does not seem to work well > under either interpretation. We assert that E can't be meaningful only because it's meaningful under system KE. .oi xu di'u ba jbena le za'o casnu ja'e du'e tai le ca'o casnu tu'a la spat. > > I'm not sure you can do this by definitional fiat and expect anyone to > follow, nor is it clear that a concept is djuno-known (as opposed to > slabu-known, say). the crucial point -- which I am not sure this makes -- > seems to be {pe'i le si'o smuni cu srana lo zasti}, not that I would agree > even with that. I define the concept of "meaning" as knowledge about what exists! zmadu fi le ka tsali fe zo pe'i .a zo srana ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!