Re: [lojban] Time for the perenial other-centric-.ui conversation

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> John Clifford's argument (with which I basically am in agreement) is
> that, to be in keeping with the stated design principles underlying
> Lojban (and inherited from and in this instance I believe more
> strongly present in Loglan), non-logical structures cannot be used to
> express propositions.

And I think most of us agree with that. (Although his suggestion that
"ie" would be a natural response to "xu do tugni" still has me
somewhat baffled.)

> However, I can see no easy way to define "da'ai" such that it does not
> contain anything propositional,

What is "da'ai"? If you mean "da'oi", which is just like "dai" only it
allows you to also indicate who you're empathizing with, I don't see
anything propositional in it.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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