Subject: Re: [lojban] If it ain't broke, don't fix it (was an approach to attitudinals)

From: Robin Lee Powell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:42:26 -0700

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:39:51PM -0400, Craig wrote:
> Givent that there wasn't any misunderstood comment to start this thread to
> my knowledge, how's this proposal sound?
> 
> 1. We will assume that attitudinals have the meaning suggested by actual
> usage.
> 2. We will use attitudinals so that people understand what we are saying.
> 3. We will shut the hell up about our fixes to attitudinal problems until
> there is a problem to post about.

You don't think that the question of whether or not the speaker of

.a'o mi klama

is asserting that they actually will/have gone is a problem?

-Robin

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