From cowan@ccil.org Mon Jul 30 06:28:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 30 Jul 2001 13:28:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 45586 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2001 13:28:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 30 Jul 2001 13:28:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2 with SMTP; 30 Jul 2001 13:28:50 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15RD6I-0008EF-00; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:28:50 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] Tidying notes on {goi} In-Reply-To: from And Rosta at "Jul 28, 2001 10:29:53 pm" To: And Rosta Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:28:50 -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 And Rosta scripsit: > I must have misunderstood. I glorked that the idea was that "ci da poi > prenu prami re da" would mean "There are exactly three people such > that each of the three loves some two of the three". So I believe. > This was the objection, but I dispute that it is always clear which > sumti has or lacks a referent. It was pointed out at Logfest that bi'u on one side of the goi would disambiguate which side is new (definiens). -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter