Re: [lojban] Lions and levels and the like

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:29 PM, maikxlx <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/11/17 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:32 PM, maikxlx <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Lojban doesn't have a word for the dual of "ka'e", so we have to make
>> do with "na ka'e na".
>
> I'm surprised at that! I wasn't 100% sure that {ka'e}/{kakne} were the
> correct words for modal possibility.

"ka'e" is "fi'o se cumki". The connection with "kakne" is just mnemonic.

> Is it fair to say that the
> "conditions" {te kakne} are the worlds themselves in which {da kakne},
> or is x3 more general?

I'd say world-talk is metalinguistic, so, sort of.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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