From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Mar 05 15:02:49 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:02:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [65.246.141.36] (helo=mail.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18qhtp-0004w8-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:02:09 -0800 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA01584 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:59:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200303052259.RAA01584@mail.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:02:04 -0500 From: John Cowan Subject: [lojban] Re: The Any thread To: lojban-list@lojban.org Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:02:04 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20030305175258.G88738-100000@granite.thestonecutters.net> from "Invent Yourself" at Mar 05, 2003 05:54:04 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 4379 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Invent Yourself scripsit: > > There is none. But I can need a doctor even if there are no doctors, > > whereas "mi nitcu lo mikce" is false if there are no doctors. > > Let's assume there are doctors. Now does it work? I think so, but I may be muddled. "I need any doctor" is just not a very intuitive sentence for me. -- Said Agatha Christie / To E. Philips Oppenheim John Cowan "Who is this Hemingway? / Who is this Proust? jcowan@reutershealth.com Who is this Vladimir / Whatchamacallum, http://www.reutershealth.com This neopostrealist / Rabble?" she groused. http://www.ccil.org/cowan --author unknown to me; any suggestions?