Re: [lojban] Regularization

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
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> (also, I think you ciska in lojban.  If you're nu citka bau la lojban then
> your mom didn't teach you very good table manners =p )

  Yeah, yeah, ciska.  Someday, maybe when I'm old and gray, I'll get
that right (oh, wait. I am already gray.  And OTOH, I still can't get
my kids' names straight, either).  Also, in my last sentence, I meant
va'o, not va.  Also, I should clarify that I didn't mean that I don't
write.  I DO write, but that I write in lojban.  But if I write in
English only, then setence is false.  You can't disregard the bau la
lojban part.  The way I wrote it seems to imply that if you dropped
the bau la lojban part, the senetnece would now be false.  That isn't
what I intended to say.

       --gejyspa


>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>  I would argue (and my opinion isn't necessarily the "one true way",
>> mind you) that yeah it makes a factual claim, as does the main bridi.
>> (Although I might simply phrase it "Having a pet dinosaur,...." (e.g.
>> "... I go through a lot of Bronto Chow in week")  In other words, I
>> contend that with all BAI/FI'O constructions, you are making a factual
>> claim.  "Mi citka bau la lojban" I am not just claiming that I write,
>> but I'm writing in lojban.  Without the lojban part, the sentence just
>> isn't true.  If I say "mi gunka ki'u lo nu mi nitcu lo jdini", if I
>> don't need the money, the bridi is not true.  I am asserting "mi gunka
>> .ije mi nitcu lo jdini".  "va'" is no different in this regard.
>>            --gejyspa
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:05 AM, John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Taking all that into account is {va'o lonu mi ponse lo dalpe'o dinsauru}
>> > "Since
>> > I have a pet dinosaur" or is it merely indeterminate as to the truth of
>> > the
>> > condition?
>> >

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