From lojbab@lojban.org Sat May 26 07:52:56 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 26 May 2001 14:52:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 19482 invoked from network); 26 May 2001 14:52:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 26 May 2001 14:52:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-1.cais.net) (205.252.14.71) by mta1 with SMTP; 26 May 2001 14:52:55 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org (dynamic197.cl8.cais.net [205.177.20.197]) by stmpy-1.cais.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4QEqsX07053 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 10:52:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010526104857.00b58940@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 10:54:52 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Lessons In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" At 04:14 PM 05/25/2001 +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > >So... do we need a new tense for this? Perhaps use a couple of 'x' cmavo to > >express "in another universe" or "in all possible universes" and one to > >return to the universe of what we believe to be true? > >Something like that, yes, except I think it has to be a UI, not >a tense, and I'm not sure we need a new cmavo, we may already >have what we need. For example, I think we can understand {ei} >to mean "in an ideal world" (essentially the job of "should" in >English) {a'o} to mean "in my favourite possible world" and {au} >"in my favourite impossible world", or something like that, I >still haven't worked out all the details, but it looks promising. >I'd rather be sure of what we already have before bringing in >new cmavo. ru'a, possibly modified by la'a spectrum (or ju'onai for truly impossible worlds). lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org