From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Feb 09 08:38:20 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:38:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JNsiZ-0006ZK-SQ for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:38:20 -0800 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.190]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JNsiV-0006Z7-1e for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:38:19 -0800 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j3so173630tid.20 for ; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:38:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=2F47S3nqX/BGBMZxAxGYvw4aTM9ZJ+d+pIGTSXH/LHQ=; b=pCs4063J6bS5ZiXhfvRxinkc5nRx4/f7Zzv/rOW7tI2OYnMIkl6nmKof8FwkjDh5dGzxH4mIngRnwwtgrdwPFN/l+2/Ps9kbV1BAnowNKqQm/94S9lj6QzQXz9zUKxPjdEvdC5g+7VmWoXXdb4vTjCMHfLGymatksjhwSpxw8UU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=RGC2+dvaYxDycJ5GOe6M3xKWelsYx8DKPazz03lQQIxB7cAChXTT6JzMIkyS/HJ14X81OiHincKEGeBIYhd3fABL3+m4EbwpPmC1t6+LBKIiIUGYol5MTKMUi0XoKp+e+J8it1dstLyVcEn7M22FpD2dsQndqdONeBh/zPgAzZ8= Received: by 10.110.11.10 with SMTP id 10mr7885561tik.44.1202575090254; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:38:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.110.63.15 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 08:38:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <97f5058c0802090838k38beef7arec3e6220db49a91d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:38:10 +0800 From: Penguino To: lojban-list Subject: [lojban] Potentiality MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_23162_2673415.1202575090251" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14161 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: spheniscine@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------=_Part_23162_2673415.1202575090251 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In English, there is a subtle, and grammatically confusing, distinction between the sentences "John is a potential student", which means that John might become a student in the future, and "John is potentially a student", which means that John might or might not be a student now. How is this distinction made in Lojban? [la djan. ka'e binxo lo tadni] seems right for the first sentence; is it right to use [ka'e] for the second: [la djan. ka'e tadni]? ------=_Part_23162_2673415.1202575090251 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In English, there is a subtle, and grammatically confusing, distinction between the sentences "John is a potential student", which means that John might become a student in the future, and "John is potentially a student", which means that John might or might not be a student now.

How is this distinction made in Lojban? [la djan. ka'e binxo lo tadni] seems right for the first sentence; is it right to use [ka'e] for the second: [la djan. ka'e tadni]?
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