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To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: ci lo gerku vs lo ci gerku Message-ID: <20110509234034.GA69527@149.sub-75-211-198.myvzw.com> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com References: <201105062251.18981.phma@phma.optus.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Original-Sender: alyn.post@lodockikumazvati.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 209.85.212.171 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of alanpost@sunflowerriver.org) smtp.mail=alanpost@sunflowerriver.org Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 9883 .i lo zu'o traji xarci pe mi'a spaji .i mu'o mi'e .alyn. On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 06:04:26PM -0400, MorphemeAddict wrote: > It's all trickery and deceit. > stevo >=20 > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Luke Bergen <[1]lukeabergen@gmail.com> > wrote: >=20 > Exactly. That's why I'm saying that it COULD be understood to be sim= ilar > to something in english like "big-foot does not exist. But if he doe= s, I > imagine that he goes to sleep sometimes". >=20 > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Michael Turniansky > <[2]mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > Ah, but I teach them valuable life lessons -- like ascertaining > exactly what "all" involves in a given transaction before embrakin= g on > a task. And they're all too smart to fall for it any more :-) > Your sentence doesn't assert anything about what would happen if t= here > were >0 9-tailed dogs. It makes the claim that there ARE NO 9-tail= ed > dogs, and that they like bones. (but again, you can say anything a= bout > them, since there are 0 of them, and still be making a true > statement). > --gejyspa >=20 > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Luke Bergen <[3]lukeabergen@gmail.= com> > wrote: >=20 > haha, gejyspa, you're kind of a jerk ;) > I guess it could also be a way of translating stuff from english > like "if there WERE 9-tailed-dogs, they would probably like bone= s" > -> {pe'i lo no sozrebge'u cu nelci la'a tu'a lo bongu} >=20 > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Michael Turniansky > <[4]mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > No, no, it's ALWAYS true. And I didn't say it was necessarily > useful, I just said it wsan't nonsense. After all, I use the > equivalent English with my kids all the time -- you know, like > "I'll give you all the dollars in my pocket if you clean your > room....Good job, I now give you the zero dollars that are in = my > pocket." > --gejyspa >=20 > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Luke Bergen > <[5]lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > But what's the purpose. {lo no gerku cu crino cirla .ije lo = no > gerku cu se rebla}. If you can say anything about {lo no ger= ku} > (whether it is true or false) then what is the purpose of it= ? >=20 > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Michael Turniansky > <[6]mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > 2011/5/7 Jorge Llamb=EF=BF=BDas <[7]jjllambias@gmail.com> >=20 > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Pierre Abbat > <[8]phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote: > > > > What about "ro lo no prane ke xirdegmei namcu cu gumpi= lji > lo su'o so ficysi'u > > namcu"? ("xirdegmei" is opposed to "landegmei".) It ha= s > been proved that they > > must have at least nine different factors, that they a= re > not divisible by > > 105, etc.; but no one has found a single one, and some > mathematicians suspect > > they don't exist. >=20 > If you are saying that "ro lo no broda cu brode" could b= e > interpreted > as "if there were any broda, they would brode, but in fa= ct > there > aren't any broda", then I guess you could interpret it t= hat > way. From > a logical point of view "lo no broda" is both a referrin= g > expression > and not referring to anything, so we can only try things > like mixing > two different contexts to make sense of it. > mu'o mi'e xorxes >=20 > I don't believe "lo no gerku cu blabi" to be self > contradictory/nonsense. > Consider a room containing three white dogs -- lo ci gerku= cu > blabi > I take one away -- lo re gerku cu blabi > I take another away -- lo pa gerku cu blabi > I take the last one away -- lo no gerku cu blabi > Of course, when I take the last one away, I can equally > truthfully say "lo no gerku cu xekri". But in all those ca= ses > I can say "ro gerku [poi zvati lo kumfa ku'o] cu blabi". I= t's > jsut a question of whether I am specifying their cardinali= ty > (ci,re,pa,no) or not (ro). > --gejyspa >=20 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to th= e > Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [9]lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [10]lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > [11]http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3De= n. >=20 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [12]lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [13]lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > [14]http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. >=20 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go= ogle > Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [15]lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [16]lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > [17]http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. >=20 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog= le > Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [18]lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [19]lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > [20]http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. >=20 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [21]lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [22]lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > [23]http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. >=20 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [24]lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [25]lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > [26]http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. >=20 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro= ups > "Lojban Beginners" group. > To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com= . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. >=20 > References >=20 > Visible links > 1. mailto:lukeabergen@gmail.com > 2. mailto:mturniansky@gmail.com > 3. mailto:lukeabergen@gmail.com > 4. mailto:mturniansky@gmail.com > 5. mailto:lukeabergen@gmail.com > 6. mailto:mturniansky@gmail.com > 7. mailto:jjllambias@gmail.com > 8. mailto:phma@phma.optus.nu > 9. mailto:lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com > 10. mailto:lojban-beginners%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com > 11. http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den > 12. mailto:lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com > 13. mailto:lojban-beginners%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com > 14. http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den > 15. mailto:lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com > 16. mailto:lojban-beginners%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com > 17. http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den > 18. mailto:lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com > 19. mailto:lojban-beginners%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com > 20. http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den > 21. mailto:lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com > 22. mailto:lojban-beginners%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com > 23. http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den > 24. mailto:lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com > 25. mailto:lojban-beginners%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com > 26. http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den --=20 .i ma'a lo bradi ku penmi gi'e du --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= Lojban Beginners" group. 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