From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Jun 14 12:43:16 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 14 Jun 2001 19:43:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 81165 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2001 19:43:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 14 Jun 2001 19:43:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (64.152.7.13) by mta3 with SMTP; 14 Jun 2001 19:43:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5EJhFX12708 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:43:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:43:14 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: .ui, Propositional Adjuster (was: An approach to attitudinals In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010614154055.00ce2b20@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > At 03:17 PM 06/14/2001 -0400, you wrote: > > > But plausibly it can mean "I am happy now" about a situation (bridi) that I > > > am presently considering which is not a present reality, which > > > pragmatically often means "I would be happy if". > > > >Am I to understand that ".ui mi klama" can mean "I am going, and I am > >happy about it", and ALSO mean "I would be happy if I went, not asserting > >that I am going"? > > Given some contexts, it might. I might be describing a dream, or telling a > story, or the next sentence might start .ijanai or something else that > removes assertiveness. Wouldn't you appreciate a simple scheme that removed this ambiguity? ----- We do not like And if a cat those Rs and Ds, needed a hat? Who can't resist Free enterprise more subsidies. is there for that!