From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Wed Sep 18 14:30:52 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 18 Sep 2002 21:30:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 87221 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2002 21:30:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Sep 2002 21:30:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailbox-3.st1.spray.net) (212.78.202.103) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2002 21:30:51 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (host213-121-68-213.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.68.213]) by mailbox-3.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2881C18E06 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 23:30:49 +0200 (DST) To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: I like chocolate Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:32:28 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <8c.1e32fa76.2ab7432f@aol.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin pc: > jjllambias@hotmail.com writes: > << > I won't deny that until I see the complex hypothetical claim > expressed in Lojban. Unless it is so hypothetical that it can't > be expressed, in which case I have no problem with it. :) > >> > The difficulty in expressing it is Lojban is probably a major reason > why we have {lo'e} at all. But I am not about to get kicked around > again trying to work out Lojban hypotheticals and their kin. When > someone else gets that right, I will be happy to do these in Lojban. If you could post a set of English sentences that exemplify the hypotheticals that need to be rendered into Lojban, I'll see what I can do. My hope would be that {mu'ei} and {ba'oi} would do the job, but I'm not sure if they cover everything. --And.