From pycyn@aol.com Sun Jun 10 18:15:08 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 11 Jun 2001 01:15:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 99182 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2001 01:15:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 11 Jun 2001 01:15:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r01.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.97) by mta3 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 01:15:07 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v30.22.) id r.be.15c4f4d0 (4256) for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:15:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:15:00 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_be.15c4f4d0.28557594_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10519 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_be.15c4f4d0.28557594_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/10/2001 7:51:53 PM Central Daylight Time, xod@sixgirls.org writes: > In usage, when people want to ask about the truth of a bridi, they put xu > in front. When they want to ask about the validity of a certain component > of the bridi, they put xu right after it. This sounds quite like the new > proposal to me. > Well, except that {xu} behaves exactly the same way regardless of where it is placed. To be sure, rhetorically, when a word is emphasized, the answer may go beyond the simple yes/no required by {xu}, but that is courtesy not grammar or semantics. --part1_be.15c4f4d0.28557594_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/10/2001 7:51:53 PM Central Daylight Time,
xod@sixgirls.org writes:



In usage, when people want to ask about the truth of a bridi, they put xu
in front. When they want to ask about the validity of a certain component
of the bridi, they put xu right after it. This sounds quite like the new
proposal to me.



Well, except that {xu} behaves exactly the same way regardless of where it is
placed.  To be sure, rhetorically, when a word is emphasized, the answer may
go beyond the simple yes/no required by {xu}, but that is courtesy not
grammar or semantics.
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