From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Tue May 01 10:44:07 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: arosta@uclan.ac.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_2); 1 May 2001 17:42:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 81199 invoked from network); 1 May 2001 14:48:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 1 May 2001 14:48:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO com1.uclan.ac.uk) (193.61.255.3) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 May 2001 14:48:04 -0000 Received: from gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk by com1.uclan.ac.uk with SMTP (Mailer); Tue, 1 May 2001 15:29:24 +0100 Received: from DI1-Message_Server by gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 01 May 2001 15:49:28 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.2 Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 15:49:09 +0100 To: lojban Subject: Re: [lojban] Predicate logic and childhood. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: And Rosta Robin Lee Powell: #No-one has yet managed to tell me what possible use, in actual #communication, things like o and anai have. I forget what "anai" is, but assuming it reverses the truth table for "a", would it mean "neither X nor Y"? And "I drink milk only in coffee and coffee only with milk" could involve "milk o coffee". Anyway, it's no longer appropriate to hold up one's hands in horror at this or that feature of Lojban and hope that something will be done about it. If great swathes of Lojban are communicatively useless, then that's just how things are. --And.