Re: [lojban] Lessons

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Thu, 24 May 2001 pycyn@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/23/2001 8:03:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
> nicholas@uci.edu writes:
>
>
> > My current thinking, btw, is that forethought
> > connectives are not worth mentioning in an introductory course, as they
> > are too infrequently used.
> >
> But they are so tidy and clear as opposed to the infix ("now negate the
> sentence you just received") and so natural for "if"


Nick, I hope you're teaching the newbies to use "va'o" for what they think
"if, then" is, instead of "ganai, gi" or whatever the misleading
formal-logic conditional is.




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