Re: Lojban is *NOT* broken! Stop saying that! (was Re: [lojban] Re: Vote for the Future Global Language)

[Ivo Doko <ivo.doko@gmail.com>]

On 7 January 2011 23:33, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

The question is the same regardless of emphasis.

No, it isn't.

 

Also, in the real world, the question is never an XOR question, so saying "CREAM or SUGAR" does not suggest that the customer can have only one or the other, but merely that the customer is hard of hearing.

You either don't know English well enough or are (consciously or subconsciously) stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the impact different emphasis has on the meaning of a sentence in English language. I am sorry, but there is nothing else I can conclude because the example I have provided of two different emphases of the same sentence do *not* have the same meaning.


Also, in questions like "do you want A or B?", 'or' is usually neither OR nor XOR because the required answer is not simply "yes" or "no", which it would be if the 'or' in the question was OR or XOR.

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