Subject: Re: [lojban] The Knights who forgot to say "ni!"

From: Rob Speer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:01:05 -0400

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 06:04:28PM +0100, And Rosta wrote:
> Rob:
> > "whether D is a crook". Not every grammatical construct has to be "evaluated"
> > to something shorter.
> 
> In general, things *are* fully evaluated in Lojban. The times when you want 
> something that doesn't evaluate are special cases, that call for special
> constructions, the ones that cause us so much perplexity.

If you performed the kind of "evaluation" people are suggesting for {jei} all
the time, then saying {la spat. gerku} would be instantly replaced by "true"
and communicate nothing.
-- 
Rob Speer