From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 12 20:32:52 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 13 Jun 2001 03:32:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 62762 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2001 03:32:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Jun 2001 03:32:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2001 03:32:51 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15A1Oj-00064g-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:32:49 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:32:49 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals Message-ID: <20010612203249.H14438@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <3B26CDD8.5265FA7@flash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B26CDD8.5265FA7@flash.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:20:08PM -0500, Richard Todd wrote: > Craig wrote: > > > > Here's my $.02. > > Words in [square brackets] in the examples are for clarification and are not > > part of the translation. > > > > MEEK LLAMA, OUI? > > > {sections A through I elided} > > ...or we can just learn that > > "Beginning of sentence" = world-building/no assertion/whatever you call > it > > "anywhere else" = assertion of truth. > > Its appeal is that it is so straightforward. It doesn't try to cover > all the known uses, but I don't see it as less expressive. I cannot say > so for sure because I can't express much of anything in lojban as of > yet. That's actually exactly (one of) my proposal. It breaks normal usage of xu, though. -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/