From cowan@ccil.org Sat Jun 09 22:10:30 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 10 Jun 2001 05:10:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 91032 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2001 05:10:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 10 Jun 2001 05:10:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 10 Jun 2001 05:10:29 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 158xUk-0001AE-00; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:10:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals In-Reply-To: <3B22BB9F.77FB73E9@flash.net> from Richard Todd at "Jun 9, 2001 07:13:19 pm" To: Richard Todd Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:10:38 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Richard Todd scripsit: > What do you think? This gives us the ability to say exactly what we mean. Lojban has cmavo-laden shades of everything else, and it's very precise that way. There must be a few combinations of three > letters left... :) Not many. But anyway, if you want to say exactly what you mean, use a bridi. Attitudinals are for expressing how you feel, not for saying what you mean. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter