From cowan@ccil.org Thu Mar 25 05:22:29 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 73117 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2004 13:22:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m18.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Mar 2004 13:22:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2004 13:22:28 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6Un2-0000oA-00; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:20:56 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:20:56 -0500 To: Jorge =?iso-8859-1?Q?Llamb=EDas?= Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20040325132056.GA2972@ccil.org> References: <20040324214821.GH19914@skunk.reutershealth.com> <20040325124639.57745.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040325124639.57745.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 192.190.237.100 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: reply to a negated selbri X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21796 Jorge Llamb?as scripsit: > I think if the question was just "Isn't this white?", then > "Yes" means "yes, it is white" and "No" means "no, it isn't white" > without any possible confusion. "This is not white?" seems to be > more than just a question, so that may bring confusion. Agreed. What are the Spanish conventions for replying to a negative question? -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan If a traveler were informed that such a man [as Lord John Russell] was leader of the House of Commons, he may well begin to comprehend how the Egyptians worshiped an insect. --Benjamin Disraeli