Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DgyP2-0008Oq-Q2 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:19:28 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1DgyP2-0008Oj-HC for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:19:28 -0700 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:19:28 -0700 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: ro'ucu'i no'e gletu Message-ID: <20050611051928.GX22480@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: <42AA1F24.000006.27959@mfront7.yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42AA1F24.000006.27959@mfront7.yandex.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 1513 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 708 On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 03:15:48AM +0400, malbeth wrote: > Just curious, what would be the meaning of a phrase like ro'ucu'i > no'e gletu? (I mean a neutral scalar attitude modifier combined > with a midpoint scalar negation of the selbri)? Is it a > redundancy? They are unrelated; one is an expression of the speaker's emotional state, the other is modification of an assertion. "I'm feeling neither sexual nor non-sexual, and I assert that something unspecified is neither sexual nor non-sexual." -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/