From xod@sixgirls.org Thu May 24 11:15:50 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 24 May 2001 18:15:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 12578 invoked from network); 24 May 2001 18:15:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 May 2001 18:15:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta2 with SMTP; 24 May 2001 18:15:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4OIFQ516468 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 14:15:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 14:15:26 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Lessons In-Reply-To: <11.14c05c46.283e2156@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 7237 On Thu, 24 May 2001 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 5/23/2001 8:03:49 PM Central Daylight Time, > nicholas@uci.edu writes: > > > > My current thinking, btw, is that forethought > > connectives are not worth mentioning in an introductory course, as they > > are too infrequently used. > > > But they are so tidy and clear as opposed to the infix ("now negate the > sentence you just received") and so natural for "if" Nick, I hope you're teaching the newbies to use "va'o" for what they think "if, then" is, instead of "ganai, gi" or whatever the misleading formal-logic conditional is. ----- 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!