Re: A couple of questions

["Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU>]

>Date:         Thu, 6 Oct 1994 12:49:42 CST
>From: Chung-chieh Shan <ken%MATH.NTU.EDU.TW@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
>X-To:         lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu

>2) Has it occured to anyone that "needing" something might not imply "needing
>   to have it"?  I might say in English, "I need a clean environment," yet
>   I don't want to have (i.e., to possess) the clean environment.  Perhaps
>   this is yet another argument for constraining the x2 place of {nitcu}
>   to abstractions.

I sort of thought that "nitcu" didn't imply "ponse"; that you'd need a
tanru/lujvo for that  in any case (mi nitcu lenu mi ponse.../mi ponse
nitcu... or assorted sumti-raising: mi nitcu tu'a ...).  So your example
would probably be simplest stated as "mi nitcu lenu le vanbi be mi cu
jinsa".

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>Chung-chieh (Ken) Shan   ken@cauchy.math.ntu.edu.tw
>"Ay, fashion you may call it.  Go to, go to." -- Hamlet

~mark