I think it does, but I am not proficient enough to translate it, so we're stuck on assuming.On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com> wrote:If A = "lojban is fully defined." then "lojban is not A" means "lojban is not "lojban is fully defined."." Decide what A, B and C mean.On 6 January 2011 03:02, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:Wrong on both counts.
Where:"lojban is not a fully defined, complete and functioning language" = "lojban is not A, B, and C." = "lojban is not (A, B, and C)." = {.i la.lojban. na mulno smugau je mulno je tolpo'u bangu}
A = "lojban is fully defined."
B = "lojban is complete."
C = "lojban is a functioning language."
"lojban is not fully defined, or lojban is not complete, or lojban is not a functioning language." = "lojban is (not A) or (not B) or (not C)." = {.i la.lojban. na mulno smugau gi'a na mulno gi'a na tolpo'u bangu}
In any case, this is what I meant:
"It is not true that lojban is fully defined and that lojban is complete and that lojban is a functioning language."
That *must* be equivalent to:
"lojban is not fully defined, or lojban is not complete, or lojban is not a functioning language."
Regardless, what you meant is not what you said. Something that is easy to do in English, but rather difficult in Lojban.
Waiter: Do you want cream of sugar in your coffee?
Lojbanist: Yes.