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Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: ci lo gerku vs lo ci gerku



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On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 06:04:26PM -0400, MorphemeAddict wrote:
>    It's all trickery and deceit.
>    stevo
> 
>    On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Luke Bergen <[1]lukeabergen@gmail.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      Exactly. That's why I'm saying that it COULD be understood to be similar
>      to something in english like "big-foot does not exist. But if he does, I
>      imagine that he goes to sleep sometimes".
> 
>      On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Michael Turniansky
>      <[2]mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>        Ah, but I teach them valuable life lessons -- like ascertaining
>        exactly what "all" involves in a given transaction before embraking 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 there
>        were >0 9-tailed dogs. It makes the claim that there ARE NO 9-tailed
>        dogs, and that they like bones. (but again, you can say anything about
>        them, since there are 0 of them, and still be making a true
>        statement).
>        --gejyspa
> 
>        On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Luke Bergen <[3]lukeabergen@gmail.com>
>        wrote:
> 
>          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 bones"
>          -> {pe'i lo no sozrebge'u cu nelci la'a tu'a lo bongu}
> 
>          On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Michael Turniansky
>          <[4]mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>            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
> 
>            On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Luke Bergen
>            <[5]lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>              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 gerku}
>              (whether it is true or false) then what is the purpose of it?
> 
>              On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Michael Turniansky
>              <[6]mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>                2011/5/7 Jorge Llamb�as <[7]jjllambias@gmail.com>
> 
>                  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 gumpilji
>                  lo su'o so ficysi'u
>                  > namcu"? ("xirdegmei" is opposed to "landegmei".) It has
>                  been proved that they
>                  > must have at least nine different factors, that they are
>                  not divisible by
>                  > 105, etc.; but no one has found a single one, and some
>                  mathematicians suspect
>                  > they don't exist.
> 
>                  If you are saying that "ro lo no broda cu brode" could be
>                  interpreted
>                  as "if there were any broda, they would brode, but in fact
>                  there
>                  aren't any broda", then I guess you could interpret it that
>                  way. From
>                  a logical point of view "lo no broda" is both a referring
>                  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
> 
>                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 cases
>                I can say "ro gerku [poi zvati lo kumfa ku'o] cu blabi". It's
>                jsut a question of whether I am specifying their cardinality
>                (ci,re,pa,no) or not (ro).
>                --gejyspa
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