From pycyn@aol.com Sun Nov 04 05:58:52 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 4 Nov 2001 13:58:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 67558 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2001 13:58:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Nov 2001 13:58:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-m09.mx.aol.com) (64.12.136.164) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Nov 2001 13:58:51 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-m09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.8.) id r.16e.35fa3b4 (18254) for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 08:58:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <16e.35fa3b4.2916a399@aol.com> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 08:58:49 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] lo with discourse-scope? To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_16e.35fa3b4.2916a399_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_16e.35fa3b4.2916a399_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/3/2001 9:38:51 PM Central Standard Time, a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes: > a proper > well-behaved quantifier-bound variable is not pointless, and it is > good for us to have such a thing, even if it can't be da & we have to > have an experimental cmavo for it instead. > Well, {da} is proper and well-behaved; its user are sometimes not. We let them get away with it colloquially, but call them to heel when precision is an issue. --part1_16e.35fa3b4.2916a399_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/3/2001 9:38:51 PM Central Standard Time, a.rosta@dtn.ntl.com writes:


a proper
well-behaved quantifier-bound variable is not pointless, and it is
good for us to have such a thing, even if it can't be da & we have to
have an experimental cmavo for it instead.


Well, {da} is proper and well-behaved; its user are sometimes not.  We let them get away with it colloquially, but call them to heel when precision is an issue. --part1_16e.35fa3b4.2916a399_boundary--