From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Wed Apr 23 09:24:11 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:24:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20501.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.226.136]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 198N2T-0006O0-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:24:06 -0700 Message-ID: <20030423155146.61588.qmail@web20501.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web20501.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:51:45 PDT Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:51:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: [OT] God Syndrome (OR: The why of 'why') To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20030423024138.74602.qmail@web10907.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 4904 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Jon MacLeod wrote: > Basically, the concept is: Where x is a person, y is an action, and z is the > reason for the action, why does x do y for reason z? In lojban that could be, for example: ma krinu le nu zy mukti ybu boi xy What is the reason that situation Z motivates person X to take action Y But I'm not sure why you say this is unsayable in English, so I might be one of those who don't understand the question. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com