From lukeabergen@gmail.com Wed Jan 27 11:05:16 2010 Received: from mail-gx0-f210.google.com ([209.85.217.210]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NaDCS-0000fE-Oz for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:05:16 -0800 Received: by gxk2 with SMTP id 2so3207673gxk.4 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:05:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=yCPcq3fE/Ovg94/rwDGv9nchRz1jVrYFKjk4/REDhVw=; b=aWT2eyivx0BnHFJKHWUcIohn431Qjq6zOT7Etz9NnEMcTtzB4ZZnvu41okTGUUADuD 5DEvOQiYbu/LbyyLKyf3DNGgFIUefR8uOdlg+Sb8M6rP1PpyueaXuA+l/L377TKOIqfg FGbgL9F0Yl/M7GsU/q8DMTDZPCO219JTsLNhM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=R1ONULTEvOo6Z6bmt2HdtlyM6BMFVBIoDITfV5SR+1WXYvY5+bTz0Lr/DusjVPnm/v YI/24GUfy56ZJb1qsI8ecnItLp/ntQin1OpnRVGPrm7TMbaQGc3SpwO+3OMCmf79bP8p NGRz9T6EeKZOm5yJKFAl1Ub3+ifj7usvIFW1o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.47.18 with SMTP id u18mr6390104ybu.173.1264619105720; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:05:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:05:05 -0500 Message-ID: <5715b9301001271105m3f1aa03ex743962a50b8b8027@mail.gmail.com> Subject: which one from a list of things From: Luke Bergen To: lojban-list@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd7054a929baa047e2a149d --000e0cd7054a929baa047e2a149d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 After reading through some of the logical connectives section of the CLL again I'm wondering... what is the best way to ask "to drink, do you want iced tea, lemonade, water, coffee, soda, or orange juice?" without having to have 6^10 logical connectives or whatever absurd construct it is. Or it could get even more insane if the format of the question is asking for exactly two items from the list (in the case of, would your two kids like ). I'm all for being perfectly logical and saying exactly what I mean to say, but is there some kind of shortcut in cases where I don't want to do back flips to ask a simple question? ba ki'e mi'e pafcribe (is that a legitimate way to say "thanks in advance"?) --000e0cd7054a929baa047e2a149d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable After reading through some of the logical connectives section of the CLL ag= ain I'm wondering... what is the best way to ask "to drink, do you= want iced tea, lemonade, water, coffee, soda, or orange juice?" witho= ut having to have 6^10 logical connectives or whatever absurd construct it = is. =A0Or it could get even more insane if the format of the question is as= king for exactly two items from the list (in the case of, would your two ki= ds like <list>).

I'm all for being perfectly logical and saying exactly w= hat I mean to say, but is there some kind of shortcut in cases where I don&= #39;t want to do back flips to ask a simple question?

ba ki'e =A0mi'e pafcribe =A0(is that a legitimate way to say &= quot;thanks in advance"?)
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