From xod@sixgirls.org Thu May 24 11:44:12 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 24 May 2001 18:44:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 14902 invoked from network); 24 May 2001 18:43:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 24 May 2001 18:43:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 24 May 2001 18:43:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4OIhDT16976; Thu, 24 May 2001 14:43:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 14:43:12 -0400 (EDT) To: Robin Lee Powell Cc: Subject: Re: [lojban] Lessons In-Reply-To: <20010524111800.T17618@digitalkingdom.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Thu, 24 May 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 02:15:26PM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote: > > On Thu, 24 May 2001 pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > > > > 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" > > > > > > Nick, I hope you're teaching the newbies to use "va'o" for what they think > > "if, then" is, instead of "ganai, gi" or whatever the misleading > > formal-logic conditional is. > > You might recall that not all of us agree that the formal-logic > conditional is misleading. > > Those of you who felt that it was never seemed to be able to come up > with a clearer argument then, "Well, it just is. So there.". No! I had no idea anybody was yet unconvinced! Please, go back and search for "subjunctive" in the archives, and get convinced. There are very clear arguments in there. ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!