From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Apr 30 15:13:15 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 30 Apr 2001 22:13:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 42842 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2001 22:13:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 Apr 2001 22:13:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 30 Apr 2001 22:13:13 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14uLuq-0007Vp-00 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:13:12 -0700 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:13:12 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] childhood & conditionals Message-ID: <20010430151312.C27753@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from graywyvern@hotmail.com on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:05:31PM +0000 From: Robin Lee Powell On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:05:31PM +0000, michael helsem wrote: > the longer i read this discussion the less i think that > such a statement as "If you clean your room..." is about > a logical conjunction of statements at all. That's nice. Now if someone would tell me what the conditionals, other than .e, are actually useful _for_, I'd shut up. If such a basic aspect of the language has no actual use, I think we have some serious considering to do. -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/