Re: [lojban] Epictetus, Discourses 1.1

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/7/2001 8:19:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
lojbab@lojban.org writes:

And no, I don't speak that dialect of English, which seems to have become
commonplace in the US in the last decade or so.  It drives me batty to read
sentences like that that seem to make universal claims, but don't really do
so.

Not peculiar to English, alas.  Logic texts from the 13th century warn that
one muct becareful whether (in effect) "all S is not P" is E or O (i.e., "No
S is P" or "Some S is not P").  And this persists in the tradition down to
the present day.