From cowan@ccil.org Fri Jul 07 14:12:33 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22468 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 21:12:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2000 21:12:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 21:12:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA04160; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:49:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:49:14 -0400 (EDT) To: And Rosta Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: RE: [lojban] I don't think so, il ne faut pas, etc. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, And Rosta wrote: > [I]t was formerly much debated whether this amounts to a rule of semantically > vacuous negative raising or whether it can all be explained by pragmatics > (i.e. cooperative addressee not insisting on taking addresser's words too > literally). Of course, those of us who don't insist on making that pernicious distinction don't have a problem with it. *smirk* -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"