On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 09:14:47AM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/19/2002 5:49:13 AM Central Daylight Time,
> lojban-out@lojban.org writes:
[...]
> The question is, first, whether one is here *expressing* an obligation or
> merely *reporting* that one has (or had) one. I think that {ei} only
> expresses and that this case is too deeply buried to be an expression, hence
> the need to state the obligation openly. Secondly, the question is whether
[...]
I had this same argument with xorxes already on jboste (bau la
lojban. though so it wasn't quite this lame). Check CLL chapter
2, he's right -- certain attitudinals modify the meaning of the
bridi instead of just expressing how you feel. ".ei" is one of the
former.
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Jordan DeLong
fracture@allusion.net
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