From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Sun Sep 29 06:27:28 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_4); 29 Sep 2002 13:27:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 77119 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2002 13:27:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Sep 2002 13:27:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailbox-2.st1.spray.net) (212.78.202.102) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2002 13:27:28 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (host213-121-68-61.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.68.61]) by mailbox-2.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E7919A73 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:27:25 +0200 (DST) To: "Lojban@Yahoogroups. Com" Subject: RE: [lojban] sticky hypothesis Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 14:29:02 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" 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: <000b01c267b2$ff68e7e0$a3c80950@ftiq2awxk6> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin > And: > > {da'i fu'e }, I think. > > Well, I restricted {fu'e} to attitudinals, but I do not object to extend > its use to discursives. The problem is that I would understand > {dai'ifu'e} as a scope indicator for what is hypothetical > rather than a scope indicator for the consequences of the > hypothesis, which is what I am really looking for. > > mu'omi'e lioNEL Sorry, I read your question overhastily. But I wonder whether you misconstrue the function of da'i. Despite much usage to the contrary, it is not really a way to state conditional meaning. How about if you give an English example of what you would like to say, so we can get an idea of what you're after? --And.