Re: [lojban] Whatever

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/8/2001 8:01:30 PM Central Daylight Time,
jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:

>Nor are
>sentences after {ju} thereby tautologies.  They act like tautolgies in
>conjunctions, to be sure -- but they equally act like contradictions in
>disjunctions.

Could you give an example? I don't understand what the things
that act like contradictions in disjunctions are.

They are false.  so the whole disjunctions truth value depends on the value
of the other disjunct -- just as a tautology (or a true sentence, for that
matter) throws the truth of a conjunction on the other conjunct.

<How can we say, for example, what we want to understand by:

        e'a do lebna makau
        Permission! Whatever you take.>
On the off chance that this is meant to mean something like "I hereby give
you permission to take whatever you take" (and I am obviously not at all sure
that is what either you or the sentence means) : {ro da poi se lebna dozo'u
e'a do lebna da}  tidying up takes us too deep into permission logic to mess
with at the moment.