Re: [lojban] English

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

yes.  Which do you use more often?  symbolism or litteral meaning?

"I went to the bank today", "how is your mother", "this sandwich is terrible".  Most of the assertions that we make are litteral meanings that most certainly should not be assumed to be symbolism.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:

> since the range of
> occasions when we actually want time-flies-like-an-arrow or
> someone-loves-everyone ambiguity (e.g. poetry) is much smaller than the
> range of occasions when we want to avoid it.

Are you sure ?

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