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

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

hmmm, so does "X other than Y" imply that "Y"?  When I try to think of solid examples it seems like it does, but looking at it in the form "X other than Y" it looks like it really wouldn't.  It looks like it's saying "select some X from some area excluding any Y".  Which certainly doesn't imply any truthyness about "Y".

 - Luke Bergen

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:20 AM, <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:

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