From jjllambias@hotmail.com Wed Jul 05 19:08:22 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19373 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2000 02:08:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 6 Jul 2000 02:08:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.194) by mta1 with SMTP; 6 Jul 2000 02:08:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 603 invoked by uid 0); 6 Jul 2000 02:08:21 -0000 Message-ID: <20000706020821.602.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.32.23.94 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:08:21 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.32.23.94] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Englishistic Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:08:21 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" la ivAn cusku di'e >And as van der Auwera points out (in the article I cited), >this is the usual way: very many languages have expressions for >`still', `not yet' and `no longer', but not for `already' -- >so the apparent symmetry of the quadrangle is deceptive. I imagine not many languages have a word for "not all" in the "all", "some", "none", "not all" quadrangle (for example our logical Lojban doesn't) but that doesn't mean that the quadrangle's symmetry is deceptive, only maybe that some situations may not be as striking as others. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com