From pycyn@aol.com Sat Jun 16 15:15:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 16 Jun 2001 22:15:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 25133 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2001 22:15:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 16 Jun 2001 22:15:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m09.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.164) by mta3 with SMTP; 16 Jun 2001 22:15:22 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id r.8e.17131253 (1759) for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:15:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <8e.17131253.285d3472@aol.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 18:15:14 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] hope To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_8e.17131253.285d3472_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 8072 --part1_8e.17131253.285d3472_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/15/2001 8:19:18 PM Central Daylight Time, graywyvern@hotmail.com writes: > i wonder if future > lojbanists will end up using "pacna ledu'u" exclusively for this > sort of optative statement.... > Hopefully not (ah, what would that be in Lojban?) since that is clearly only descriptive :"I have a hope that...." not the expression of a hope, as an optative "O would that..." (somebody's Latin 1 book). --part1_8e.17131253.285d3472_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/15/2001 8:19:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
graywyvern@hotmail.com writes:


i wonder if future
lojbanists will end up using "pacna ledu'u" exclusively for this
sort of optative statement....


Hopefully not (ah, what would that be in Lojban?) since that is clearly only
descriptive :"I have a hope that...." not the expression of a hope, as an
optative "O would that..." (somebody's Latin 1 book). --part1_8e.17131253.285d3472_boundary--