Re: [lojban] Re: About jboselkei reviews

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

Although the cited discussions seem to be from
the remote past, it is good to see that the
issues have been thought about.  Can there be
finally some consensus and actually doing
somehting about the problems?  I am not a fan of
CV(V)'VV forms, at least while CVV is so crowded
with forms of doubtful usefulness (and meaning). 
I am also not too sure about all the possible
words functions: that is a nice metaphor and a
handy tool, but not something to enshrine in the
language (any more than all the numbers being
defined as sets of various sorts).  So, right
now, all I am rooting for is a good "it is
possible that" and "it is necessary that" at the
modal level.Counterfactuals and related notions
need to be dealt with, but I don't yet see the
need to go beyond the regimented use of {da'i}. 

--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/26/06, John E Clifford
> <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >  (We need the dual, "it is necessary
> > that" as well, but that is barely available
> even
> > as a predicate.)
> 
> {bi'ai} is the cmavo proposed for that:
>
<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=bi%27ai>
> 
> And then there's {mu'ei} for a more general
> take:
>
<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=mu%27ei>
> 
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
> 
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