Re: [lojban] Re: Duty, promice etc...

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 1/5/07, Cyril Slobin <slobin@ice.ru> wrote:
> What I really try to say is "You promise is silly". What does it mean?
> "The action you are promised to do is silly"?

That's how I would interpret it.

> "The event that you have given a promise is silly"?

Making a silly promise might itself be regarded as a silly act too, so
indirectly you might be implying that, but that's not exactly what "your
promise is silly" would mean to me.

> "The event that you are keeping to fulfil you promise is silly"?

I don't quite understand what you mean by that.

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