From rob@twcny.rr.com Sat Oct 13 11:02:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 13 Oct 2001 18:02:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 48371 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2001 18:02:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Oct 2001 18:02:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout5.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.122) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Oct 2001 18:02:17 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout5.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id f9DI2Fh24835 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:02:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:01:18 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15sT6F-0000EI-00 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:01:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 14:01:24 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] re : translation challenge: "If today is Monday..." Message-ID: <20011013140124.B813@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <1002970050.460.84235.m12@yahoogroups.com> <001a01c153dc$f6d5c5c0$9b29ca3e@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001a01c153dc$f6d5c5c0$9b29ca3e@oemcomputer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:28:12PM +0200, G. Dyke wrote: > I don't like {mu'ei} ! (I had written a long paragraph explaining why, but I > erased it 'cause much of what I said doesn't make sense - I suppose I just > don't like the idea of lojban not being able to express something which is > so obvious in natural language) ... what? Because you don't like the idea of Lojban not being able to express the subjunctive, you argue _against_ the thing which would make it expressible? -- la rab.spir noi sarji zo mu'ei