From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Mon Aug 13 18:16:22 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 14 Aug 2001 01:16:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 98442 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2001 01:16:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 14 Aug 2001 01:16:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta05-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.45) by mta3 with SMTP; 14 Aug 2001 01:16:20 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.40.56]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010814011619.MSLZ20588.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 02:16:19 +0100 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] A or B, depending on C, and related issues Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 02:14:38 +0100 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) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 In-Reply-To: <67.182df4de.28a5dbbb@aol.com> From: "And Rosta" pc: > jjllambias@hotmail.com writes: > > Couldn't "wonder" be thought of as "interested/curious to know", > or something like that, so that it gets reduced to the "know" case? > > Maybe, though I don't see that it is necessarily so -- why not just "curious > about" for example ({kucli} after all), looking over various possibilities, > say. The best treatment of "wonder" is as "desirous/interested to know", but that is not an adequate treatment of "curious about" and "wonder about", though in turn these can be reduced to "desirous/interested to know about". > I don't see an easy way without {kau}.> > > {lemi se dasni cu cenba fo lenu lemi seklama cu cenba} for starters I'd interpret this to mean that the items of clothing undergo change, not that I wear different things when going to different destinations. --And.