or
else replacing the last of the three sentences with
.i
ra srumo lenu go'i (using "ra" to refer to "Susan", pretty obviously in
context)
However, I don't yet know how to mark the second
utterance in this chain as hypothetical, so that the listener knows I don't
really believe Zhang knows the previous, I'm just saying that Susan assumes
so. IN other words, I want to say
.i la jan HYP jimpe
go'i ("Zhang knows the previous.")
where HYP should be
substituted by some appropriate cmavo that I haven't noticed in the "Lojban
for Beginners" book yet....
Is there a cmavo like
this? What is it? If not, what's the equivalent
mechanism?
For a simpler example
of the same issue, consider
"Ben does not believe
Lojban is English"
which should be
(?)
.i la lojban HYP mintu
la glibau
.i la ben na sruma
go'i
[the first sentence
here leads to another confusion which is that lojban is a cmene, but I don't
know a cmene for English -- glibau is a lujvo not a
cmene...
I don't
like
.i la lojban HYP mintu
le glibau
because this is a
posited equivalence between two entities of different types, it seems
semantically incorrect even though it may (?) be syntactically
allowable.
Comments, answers,
etc.?
-- Ben
Goertzel
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