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Xod:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>
> > la adam cusku di'e
> >
> > >On the other hand, as I understand it, while 'broda lo'e brode' doesn't
> > >imply that 'broda lo brode', 'broda lo brode' does imply that 'broda
> > >lo'e brode'
> >
> > I think there is no _logical_ implication, but I agree there
> > is often some kind of implication. In other words, {su'o da
> > zo'u broda tu'o du'u da brode} does not logically entail
> > {broda tu'o du'u su'o da zo'u da brode}
> >
> > >So, once again with chocolate, if one ordinarily dislikes
> > >almost every piece of chocolate, but that last piece just hit the spot,
> > >then 'nelci lo cakla' and thus 'nelci lo'e cakla' is true, though 'likes
> > >chocolate' certainly isn't
> >
> > I would describe that situation as:
> >
> > mi ta'e naku nelci lo'e cakla i ku'i mi nelci le vi cakla
> > Typically it is not the case that I like chocolate, but
> > I do like this chocolate
>
> Thank you. And any statement similar to the English "I like
> generic/average/etc chocolate" that's based on a single piece, by someone
> who ordinarily dislikes it, seems like the sort of rhetoric which should
> be, and until now has been, banned in Lojban by its irrationality
>
> Furthermore, such a use makes of complete mockery of the keyword
> "typically" which I daily must remind the readers is bound to "lo'e"
OTOH, the dialect xorxes is describing (viz his), is the one that has
seen the greatest usage, and that dates back in an unbroken tradition
to ancient times (1994)....
--And.