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And Rosta scripsit: > If Lojban allows this, then "Mr Bird is carnivorous" is true on a reading > as "Within contextually given spatiotemporal parameters, Mr Bird is > carnivorous". It does, of course: "noroi" is not absolute, but means "never within a defaulted interval, a default amount of time away from the present." -- A witness cannot give evidence of his John Cowan age unless he can remember being born. jcowan@hidden.email --Judge Blagden http://www.ccil.org/~cowan