From phma@oltronics.net Fri Aug 10 11:15:09 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 10 Aug 2001 18:15:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 56626 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2001 18:14:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 10 Aug 2001 18:14:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (216.189.29.110) by mta1 with SMTP; 10 Aug 2001 18:14:06 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 7060A3C4C0; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:13:39 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] A or B, depending on C, and related issues Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 14:13:38 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0108101413380F.00986@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 9397 On Friday 10 August 2001 12:54, Jorge Llambias wrote: li'o > "depending" is vacuous as a logical connective, not as a predicate. > As a predicate it probably involves all these internal conditionals > you make allusion to. > > For example, I can say: > > le nu mi dasni makau cu jalge le nu mi klama makau > What I wear depends on (results from) where I go. > > I'm not saying a lot there, but I am saying something. Or how about fancu, instead of jalge? We'll take the car or ride our bikes, depending on the weather. mi'o klama fu le selcu'a be fi le karce ce le relxilma'e bei fi'o selfancu le tcima mu'omi'e pier.