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Re: [lojban] Re: possible worlds
At 11:03 AM 06/22/2001 +0000, Adam Raizen wrote:
thinkit8@lycos.com wrote:
> how about this? "if i were rich i'd have a house" goes to
> "fau le nu mi ricfu kei mi ponse lo zdani". i don't like using the
> UI cmavo to do this either, but i think there are substitutes.
I can't bring myself to use "fau" for anything. Since "fasnu" only has
one place, I have no idea what the relationship is supposed to be
between things tagged with "fau" and the rest of the sentence.
What is the relationship between the event and the sentence in the English
phrase "In the event of blah, i will do blecch". There is clearly some
relationship between the event and the rest of the sentence, but it is
vague what that relationship is other than the event occurring is necessary.
Thus fau associates an event with a bridi and says that its occurrence is
in some way important to the truth of that bridi. Works rather like the
English.
lojbab
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