Re: Cake, Pie or Ice Cream? (was: Re: Lojban is *NOT* broken! Stop saying that! (was Re: [lojban] Re: Vote for the Future Global Language))

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

Nice -- and pulling a Grice is a very nice touch.



----- Original Message ----
From: Craig Daniel <craigbdaniel@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Fri, January 7, 2011 2:09:48 PM
Subject: Re: Cake, Pie or Ice Cream? (was: Re: Lojban is *NOT* broken! Stop 
saying that! (was Re: [lojban] Re: Vote for the Future Global Language))

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:53 AM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 1.  What is the question to which "cream", "sugar, "neither" or "both" are
> *answers*, not merely side remarks that happen to do the job answers are
> meant to do?

.i xu djica lo kruji .a lo sakta

It can be answered - not merely replied to, but answered - with the
following five options, or variations on them: "na go'i" (no), "go'i"
(yes - unhelpful, but an answer), "go'i lo kruji" (yes, and
specifically I would like cream - and, by Gricean implicature,
presumably not sugar), "go'i lo sakta" (ditto, but the other way
around), or "go'i lo kruji .e lo sakta" (yes, I want both). All of
these explicitly answer the logical or question, and all but one of
the four ways to say yes further provide the additional information
that the questioner actually wants.

Not the only answer to your question, but an answer.

- mi'e .kreig.daniyl.

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