From pycyn@aol.com Thu May 24 01:33:32 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 24 May 2001 08:33:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 71247 invoked from network); 24 May 2001 08:33:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 May 2001 08:33:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r04.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.100) by mta1 with SMTP; 24 May 2001 08:33:31 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id r.11.14c05c46 (17085) for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 04:33:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <11.14c05c46.283e2156@aol.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 04:33:26 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Lessons To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_11.14c05c46.283e2156_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_11.14c05c46.283e2156_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/23/2001 8:03:49 PM Central Daylight Time, nicholas@uci.edu writes: > My current thinking, btw, is that forethought > connectives are not worth mentioning in an introductory course, as they > are too infrequently used. > But they are so tidy and clear as opposed to the infix ("now negate the sentence you just received") and so natural for "if" (and not too bad for "both ...and..." and "either... or..." -- and how else can you negate a compound sentence?). --part1_11.14c05c46.283e2156_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 5/23/2001 8:03:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
nicholas@uci.edu writes:


My current thinking, btw, is that forethought
connectives are not worth mentioning in an introductory course, as they
are too infrequently used.

But they are so tidy and clear as opposed to the infix ("now negate the
sentence you just received") and so natural for "if" (and not too bad for
"both ...and..." and "either... or..." -- and how else can you negate a
compound sentence?).  
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