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Re: [lojban] utterances



In a message dated 2/1/2002 12:35:49 PM Central Standard Time, xod@sixgirls.org writes:


> then what IS a sigh, if not an utterance?  how do you define 'utterance'?
> steven lytle


Given the sacred axiom that UI has no truth value, every surrounding
definition will be distorted to maintain the faith. First "proposition",
and now "utterance".


So far as I can see, no one has messed with utterance other than Lytle and he just asks the question.  Surely, a contented (let's suppose) sigh is different from {mi gleki} and also from {ui}, they they are said.  I would sum that difference up by calling the latter two utterances, but I won't insist on it .  It is clearer as {selcusku} and {selbacru}, ignoring how to say that in English.