From ragnarok@pobox.com Wed Jun 13 16:48:11 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 13 Jun 2001 23:48:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 90845 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2001 23:48:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 13 Jun 2001 23:48:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.246) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Jun 2001 23:48:10 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id ABCDADD600B0; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:48:29 -0400 Reply-To: To: Subject: RE: [lojban] If it ain't broke, don't fix it (was an approach to attitudinals) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:48:13 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20010613164226.O14438@digitalkingdom.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" When was the last time anyone was misunderstood about it? When such a misunderstanding occurs as a result of people having different views on a'o, I'll be ready to talk about it. However, UNTIL there is an actual problem with it, I would advocate taking the book's word for it. a'o mi klama means I hope that I come; ui mi klama means I'm glad I come. If there's something wrong with that, and this something wrong demonstrates itself, THEN AND ONLY THEN should we fix the problem. -----Original Message----- From: sentto-44114-7964-992475748-ragnarok=pobox.com@returns.onelist.com [mailto:sentto-44114-7964-992475748-ragnarok=pobox.com@returns.onelist.com]O n Behalf Of Robin Lee Powell Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:42 PM To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] If it ain't broke, don't fix it (was an approach to attitudinals) 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 -- 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/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.