This is one of those little problems that needs to be sol= ved, so the the answers: cream, sugar, both or neither are all correct.
=

<= b>From: Jonathan Jones <ey= eonus@gmail.com>
To:= lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 6:52:01 PM
Subject: Re: Lojban is *NOT* broken! Stop saying that! (wa= s Re: [lojban] Re: Vote for the Future Global Language)

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6 January 2011 0= 3:17, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.co= m> wrote:
>>
>> Waiter: Do you want cream or sugar in your coffee?
= >>
>> Lojbanist: Yes.
>
> Proper response is "I = do." :D Unless you drink your coffee with neither...

If you want you= r coffee with neither, the correct answer is "no". "I do" and "yes" are mer= ely semantically different - the meaning is the same in both responses.

>
> Also, that would depend on the waiter's emphasis of = the sentence:
>
> "Do you want CREAM or SUGAR in your coffee?"<= br>>
> means:
>
> "Is this true: (You want cream in yo= ur coffee. =E2=8A=95 You want sugar in your coffee.)?"
>
> "Do you WANT cream or sugar in your coffee?"
>
> m= eans:
>
> "Is this true: (You want cream in your coffee. =E2=88= =A8 You want sugar in your coffee.)?"
>
> ("=E2=8A=95" is XOR, = "=E2=88=A8" is OR.)
>
> So presuming the waiter emphasised "cream" and "sugar", not "w= ant", "yes" or "I do" are not proper responses.

It d= oesn't matter what the waiter emphasized.

Let us assign the following:
p =3D wants cream
q =3D wants sugar<= br>
(Taken directly from http://en.wikipedia.org/w= iki/Truth_table#Logical_disjunction):
The truth table for p OR q (also written as p =E2=88=A8 q, p || q, or p + q= ) is as follows:


p	q	p =E2=88=A8 q

T	T	T
T	F	T
F	T	T
F	F	F

L1 (wants cream, but not sugar): Yes.
L2 (wants sugar, b= ut not cream): Yes.
L3 (wants both cream and sugar): Yes.
L4 (wants n= either): No.

To translate the waiter's sentence into Lojban:

W: xu do djica lo nu lo kruji .a lo sakta cu nenri lo ckafi

Lojb= an {.a}, by the way, is Logical OR. XOR is {.onai}.

--
mu'o mi'e = .aionys.

.i.a'o.e'e ko cmima le bende pe lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi= .luk. mi patfu do zo'o
(Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )

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