From rob@twcny.rr.com Wed Aug 29 20:24:42 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@telenet.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2); 30 Aug 2001 03:24:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 60346 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2001 03:22:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 Aug 2001 03:22:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO telenet.net) (204.97.152.225) by mta3 with SMTP; 30 Aug 2001 03:22:42 -0000 Received: from riff (ip-209-23-14-44.modem.logical.net [209.23.14.44]) by telenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01515 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:22:41 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15cIPL-0000Yv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:22:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:22:19 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] The Knights who forgot to say "ni!" Message-ID: <20010829232219.C1483@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <123.3f0db6f.28bed599@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <123.3f0db6f.28bed599@aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com Sender: Rob Speer From: Rob Speer On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:32:41PM -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 8/29/2001 2:38:48 PM Central Daylight Time, > xod@sixgirls.org writes: > > > If D. happens to be a crook, this sentence means "I will decide true"? > > What an uncooperative interpretation! > > > > Well, it's better than "I will decide false". What -- getting back to that > older thread -- would you think the apporptiate thing to go in here is? "whether D is a crook". Not every grammatical construct has to be "evaluated" to something shorter. {mi ba jdice lejei dy. zekri gasnu} means that I will decide the answer to the question {xu dy. zekri gasnu}. That answer will, in fact, be {go'i} or {na go'i}. But that answer will be an entirely separate utterance and will not "go in" any part of this sentence. -- Rob Speer