From cowan@ccil.org Tue Feb 12 15:03:09 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_2); 12 Feb 2002 23:03:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 17001 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2002 23:03:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m4.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 12 Feb 2002 23:03:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Feb 2002 23:03:08 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16alxE-0005tH-00 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:03:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] tautologies In-Reply-To: <004c01c1b393$d1529820$792d03d5@oemcomputer> from "G. Dyke" at "Feb 12, 2002 06:59:38 am" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:03:16 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan G. Dyke scripsit: > But maybe that's what {zi'o} really means: the truth value of this sentence > does not depend on what might fill this place. Exactly. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_