From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Sep 29 11:54:15 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:54:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [65.246.141.36] (helo=mail.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1A439i-00070U-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:53:59 -0700 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 OAA15778 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:49:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:53:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:53:43 -0400 From: John Cowan To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Japanese has no subjunctive?? Message-ID: <20030929185343.GI17578@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20030929182652.GY2012@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030929182652.GY2012@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-archive-position: 6308 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 Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > My wife reports that subjunctive grammar, e.g. if I had studied, > I would have done better on the test, are very difficult, since > none of this grammar is found in Japanese. > > If this is true, and I find it unlikely, how do the Japanese talk > about subjunctives? Or do they simply (and I find this > unimaginable) not do so? Context is all. See the Chinese example in the Red Book, Chapter 13, examples 12.5 to 12.7 (http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter13.html#e12d5). -- I marvel at the creature: so secret and John Cowan so sly as he is, to come sporting in the pool jcowan@reutershealth.com before our very window. Does he think that http://www.reutershealth.com Men sleep without watch all night? --Faramir http://www.ccil.org/~cowan