Re: [lojban] Q

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/16/2001 7:49:52 AM Central Daylight Time,
biomass@hobbiton.org writes:

I use {mi na djuno
ledu'u ti
> drani} for "I don't know that this is correct" and {mi na djuno lejei
ti drani}
> for "I don't know whether this is correct".

a) You're right. I meant to use <du'u>.
b) That's nice. Thanks.
c) For all of you wanting to find a situation where two different
abstractions can be used with a difference in meaning, here it is.

c only works if we agree that "I don't know that that is true" and "I don't
know whether that is true" (Note: {jetnu} not {drani} literally) mean
different things, which is not obvious (though I can be convinced both ways
on alternate seconds).  And the problems with different abstractors was more
with sub-types than with radically different sorts (though the accusation was
often that the typpe was determined by the head to which it was attached and
this would strike at that point).