From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jun 07 10:57:21 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 7 Jun 2001 17:57:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 49475 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 17:57:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 Jun 2001 17:57:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 17:57:20 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 158424-0004HW-00 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2001 10:57:20 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:57:20 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Robin's and Nick's lessons Message-ID: <20010607105720.U2481@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <3.0.5.32.20010607141524.011361d0@pop.stud.ntnu.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010607141524.011361d0@pop.stud.ntnu.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:15:24PM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > Perhaps one should reconsider whether covering potentialities in a beginner > level course is a good idea after all? I agree, especially given the books insistence that the modal aspect, when unspecificied, is, well, unspecified, meaning that la djan. klama could actually mean la djan. na'epu'i klama !! This bothers me, and certainly isn't something I'd want to burden a new speaker with. -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/