Re: [lojban] Subjunctives and worlds

[pycyn@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/16/2002 1:12:43 PM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes:

I'm not sure the reference to possible worlds that {mu'ei}
makes necessarily has to be in the object language. It
appears in the metalanguage explaining how it works, but
there is no need for the speakers of the language to
think of it in terms of worlds anymore than we do when we
use the subjunctive.

Well, the combination with {ro} and {su'o} -- and the potential for the rest of PA -- suggests that *something* is being talked about, even if it does not go into details about what it is.  Our subjunctives use only termporal notions, which we already have, or events, which we already have in Lojban.