Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals

[Richard Todd <richardt@flash.net>]

Richard Todd wrote:
> Obviosly for things like hope and intent, the default 
> use will be less common than the propositional one, 
> and usually even silly.

The more I think about this, the {I hope for this, and claim it is true} does actually convey meaningful information.  It could be saying that I am pleased about it, in the sense that I was hoping
that it would be true and it is.  So, maybe the form's not so silly after all.  It just sounds funny in english...