From rob@twcny.rr.com Wed Jun 13 21:15:40 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 14 Jun 2001 04:15:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 20227 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2001 04:15:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Jun 2001 04:15:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.121) by mta2 with SMTP; 14 Jun 2001 04:15:39 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout2-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.2/RoadRunner 1.03) with ESMTP id f5E4EEW25469 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:14:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from riff ([24.95.175.101]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:14:14 -0400 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15AOTg-0000ba-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:11:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:11:28 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Attitudinals again (was: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Message-ID: <20010614001128.A2293@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.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 X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer la kreig. pu cusku di'e > >A difference is only a difference if it makes a difference. I see there is > >a difference in the character string. Is there a difference in meaning? > > Not in English - you're being linguistically biased again. In one, the > important part is the feeling. In the other, it is the going. Either one > expresses both, however. do kakne lenu dunda le nu tolzaupai > Oh wait, I was calmly shutting up about attitudinals. I hope this isn't to > controversial, if it turns out it is ignore me! gi'eku'i na kakne te dunda ny. -- la rab.spir