Re: [lojban] Lessons

[Invent Yourself <xod@sixgirls.org>]

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:15:26PM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote:
> > 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.
>
> You might recall that not all of us agree that the formal-logic
> conditional is misleading.
>
> Those of you who felt that it was never seemed to be able to come up
> with a clearer argument then, "Well, it just is.  So there.".



No! I had no idea anybody was yet unconvinced! Please, go back and search
for "subjunctive" in the archives, and get convinced. There are very clear
arguments in there.





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