From taral@taral.net Fri May 05 21:17:43 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2819 invoked from network); 6 May 2000 04:17:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 6 May 2000 04:17:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.taral.net) (209.217.149.127) by mta3 with SMTP; 6 May 2000 04:17:42 -0000 Received: by mail.taral.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id DEF7326332; Fri, 5 May 2000 23:17:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.taral.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D847324B62; Fri, 5 May 2000 23:17:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 23:17:41 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: taral@r149127-2815.dobiecenter.com To: pycyn@aol.com Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Intro and questions In-Reply-To: <62.31e11b7.264458e0@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Taral On Fri, 5 May 2000 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > << .i la'e zoi gy. counterfactuals .gy mo > (What are counterfactuals?)>> > Sentences that contain references to situations known or believed not to > obtain, typically, in English, "if , then" with subjunctives: "If I were > inventing English, I would leave the damned things out" They have various > functions that get glopped together in English. .i mi na jimpe (I don't understand.) co'o mi'e taral.