[lojban-beginners] Re: "tavla lo na'e te djuno", talking to the unknown,...

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 7/28/2009 11:09:48 Eastern Daylight Time, lukeabergen@gmail.com writes:


>  Now I'm just curious about the semantic difference between "other than" and "and".


I think it's an issue of topicality.  "X other than Y" reduces the topicality of Y, almost to the point of dismissal, in relation to X, while "X and Y" treats the two as almost equal, with only the fact of X occurring before Y to indicate that X is slightly more topical than Y.

stevo