Subject: Re: [lojban] Subjunctives and worlds

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 15:01:30 EST

In a message dated 2/16/2002 1:12:43 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email-masked] writes:

> I'm not sure the reference to possible worlds that {mu'ei}
> makes necessarily has to be in the object language. It
> appears in the metalanguage explaining how it works, but
> there is no need for the speakers of the language to
> think of it in terms of worlds anymore than we do when we
> use the subjunctive.
> 

Well, the combination with {ro} and {su'o} -- and the potential for the rest 
of PA -- suggests that *something* is being talked about, even if it does not 
go into details about what it is. Our subjunctives use only termporal 
notions, which we already have, or events, which we already have in Lojban.