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Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals

To: Richard Todd <richardt@flash.net>
Subject: Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:10:38 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com
In-reply-to: <3B22BB9F.77FB73E9@flash.net> from Richard Todd at "Jun 9, 2001 07:13:19 pm"

Richard Todd scripsit:

> What do you think? This gives us the ability to say exactly what we mean. Lojban has cmavo-laden shades of everything else, and it's very precise that way. There must be a few combinations of three
> letters left... :)

Not many. But anyway, if you want to say exactly what you mean, use a bridi.
Attitudinals are for expressing how you feel, not for saying what you mean.

-- 
John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter

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