From graywyvern@hotmail.com Thu Jun 07 13:11:58 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: graywyvern@hotmail.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 7 Jun 2001 20:11:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 25702 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 20:11:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 Jun 2001 20:11:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.74) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 20:11:53 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:11:52 -0700 Received: from 65.67.96.113 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:11:52 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.67.96.113] To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Bcc: Subject: Re: [lojban] Robin's and Nick's lessons Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:11:52 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jun 2001 20:11:52.0975 (UTC) FILETIME=[17C7F9F0:01C0EF8E] From: "michael helsem" >From: Robin Lee Powell li'o >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 useful feature would no longer be so if we insist on far-fetched interpretations instead of doing the natural thing--which is to have the possibility of economizing on words when it can be understood from context. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com