Re: [lojban] Attitudinals again (was: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/14/2001 2:37:53 PM Central Daylight Time,
lojbab@lojban.org writes:

There is a difference in pragmatics.  If someone claims to be happy, and
does not display happiness, I react with doubt.

There is also a difference in truth-functionality that can affect things in
a context.  For example, if the following sentence started with .ijanai,
all of a sudden there is no assertion at all, and the conditional depends
on whether I am happy rather than whether ko'a is going.

What?!  I assume we are still starting with something like {ui ko'a klama}
and now we add something beginning {ijanai} , 'if.'  So, {ko'a klama} is not
longer asserted.  But the conditional depend, both for its truth and its
pragmatics, on his coming, not on my happiness.  It is not clear whether my
happiness is now conditional a well, but it certainly is not asserted, even
conditionally.