From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Apr 30 10:38:20 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 30 Apr 2001 17:38:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 30054 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2001 17:38:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 Apr 2001 17:38:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 30 Apr 2001 17:38:19 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14uHco-0006mq-00 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:38:18 -0700 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:38:18 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Usage of logical connectives? Message-ID: <20010430103818.Z20818@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20010426100626.V8953@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from xod@sixgirls.org on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:38:13PM -0400 From: Robin Lee Powell On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:38:13PM -0400, Value Yourself wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:33:03PM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > > > > > la robyspir cusku di'e > > > >and replace them with gismu which express the idea the way we would > > > >in English. > > > > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. My claim is that the idea that the > > > parent wants to express is not one that has much to do with logical > > > connectives. It has to do with cause and effect, or rather with > > > compliance and reward. > > > > So, once again (and I'm going to keep asking this until someone answers) > > what use do the logical connectives have? What information do they > > transmit to the listener in a normal conversation? > > > ko na jinvi le du'u ro logji jorne cmavo goi ko'a cu mintu je'e. What's your point? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/