Subject: RE: [lojban] "I know you have a brother..."

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:26:18 -0000

Craig:
> >Most people want to do (1+3) as:
> 
> >(4) mi djuno lo'e du'u (su'o da zo'u) da bruna do 
> > i zo bil cmene da
> 
> >But this is logically malformed. Instead, I would suggest:
> 
> >(5) mi djuno lo'e du'u (su'o da zo'u) da bruna do 
> > i zo bil cmene le co'e
> 
> What is wrong with:
> (6) mi djuno lenu bruna do .i zo bel. ra cmene

> Wait, I have to explicitly state the zo'e. So I ammend this to
> (7) mi djuno lenu zo'e do bruna .i zo bel. ra cmene

The first sentence should have "da" rather than "zo'e"
(not the zo'e is wrong, but "da" is definitely what is meant).
Then "ra" is no better than "da" in averting logical malformation.

--And.