From cowan@ccil.org Wed Jul 18 05:33:24 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 18 Jul 2001 12:33:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 75477 invoked from network); 18 Jul 2001 12:33:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 18 Jul 2001 12:33:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3 with SMTP; 18 Jul 2001 12:33:22 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15MqW1-0000KM-00; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:33:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] emerald tablet In-Reply-To: <0107180724180R.02684@neofelis> from Pierre Abbat at "Jul 18, 2001 07:20:30 am" To: phma@oltronics.net Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:33:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat scripsit: > [A]nswering a question with {ko} is anomalous. Not really: A: ma klama le zarci B: ko is a perfectly reasonable dialogue; "do" would have the same final effect, but would be an assertion by B rather than a command. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter