From taral@taral.net Mon Sep 23 08:51:53 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: taral@taral.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 23 Sep 2002 15:51:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 1709 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2002 15:51:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Sep 2002 15:51:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dragon.taral.net) (66.25.132.47) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2002 15:51:52 -0000 Received: by dragon.taral.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D531A13E6E; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:51:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:51:51 -0500 To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] importing quantifiers (was: Re: tu'o usage Message-ID: <20020923155151.GA12184@taral.net> Mail-Followup-To: lojban References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Taral X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8064500 X-Yahoo-Profile: taralx --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:48:21PM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > The only place where the importing/nonimportingness of ro makes > an obvious difference, as far as I can see, is as an inner quantifier, > and to my mind it is very useful that {lo'i broda}=3D{lo'i ro broda} not = exclude > {lo'i no broda}. If I want to exclude {lo'i no broda} I can say=20 > {lo'i su'o broda}. This is nicely clear, unlike the rest of this entire discussion. (Even that wiki page confuses me.) > The rest of the discussion is too abstruse and too angelic-pinhead- > terpsichorean even for me! I humbly place my faith in xorxes to > show me the light & guide me on the True Path. Hear, hear. --=20 Taral This message is digitally signed. Please PGP encrypt mail to me. "Pretty please with dollars on top?" -- Me --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj2POJcACgkQoQQF8xCPwJS5AgCfW01q5txOHeL8MixCnum+vMxA 7K0AnipFuijeGQ92dbVJTYc8Vn56gRk5 =XOxm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--