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Re: [engelang] Xorban: Semantics of "l-" (and "s-" and "r-")



John E Clifford, On 10/09/2012 17:12:

I assume you mean each person is unlikely to dislike his/her own
mother rather than that it is likely that some persons does dislike
their own mother. ra prna se mmteka na [likely to dislike] ake. The
brackets because I don't know how you would handle "unlikely" (a
modal of the statistical sort, I would say) and I am too lazy to run
upstairs and check the word for "dislike". I can imagine all sorts
of problems with this, mainly of the "suppose he has more than one
mother and likes some and not others" variety, which needs more
sociological treatment than logical ones.

That's why I thought you'd go for "re mmteka".

I always thoguth that english was your native language, yet you seem
able to read what you say about your widget and not get immediately
puzzled by what it means. If it makes sense to you, please explain
it to me.

Experience has proved this to be impossible. Clearly the idea is transmissible, since Jorge and I always understand each other and agree when we discuss it, but the idea is not transmissible to you.

If it doesn't, then that is the evidence that it makes no sense.

The balance of the evidence doesn't warrant that conclusion.

As for your complaint about my way of doing things, I don't see what
I do that is non-standard or that somehow requires special rules.

Which complaint? I haven't complained about your way of doing things. (If I were to complain, it would be over the excessive use of top-posting, and the flogging a dead horse over this relatively trivial l quantifier issue. But I didn't complain about you doing something nonstandard or requiring special rules.)

Yes, I want to know what makes a sentence true (when that is the
relevant issue), but surely you want that too. What is the point of
sying something if there is no way of finding out whether it is true?
(I leave out theological questions for the nonce.)

I do want to know what makes a sentence true. But that lies outside the scope of the formal codified language design as I envision it.

--And.