From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jun 12 20:47:50 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 13 Jun 2001 03:47:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 14235 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2001 03:47:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Jun 2001 03:47:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta2 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2001 03:47:49 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15A1dE-0006Co-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:47:48 -0700 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:47:48 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] An approach to attitudinals Message-ID: <20010612204748.N14438@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:43:55PM -0400, Invent Yourself wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I agree with the above. I cannot (be bothered to) get my head around rules > A through I. What's wrong with rules 1-4? 8) Actually, only 3 of the rules in my proposals are relevant. So it doesn't add much complexity. -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/