Re: "CFrom cbmvax!uunet!remus.rutgers.edu!shoopak Mon Aug 12 13:28:26 1991

[cbmvax!uunet!information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk!jrk Mon, 12 Aug 1991 13:19:07 +0100]

	shoopak@romulus.rutgers.edu

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	shoopak@elbereth.rutgers.edu

				thanks.


ould you please..." "Yes"

steffan%pro-angmar@com.alfalfa (Steven Mesnick) writes:

>So in Lojban, the answer to
>"Do you know what time it is" would have to be "Yes" or "No", right?

Why?  The listener can give whatever answer he likes.  He is not bound by
the literal meaning of the speaker's question.

For that matter, in Loglan (I dont know if this is still the case in Lojban)
the speaker's meaning is, fundamentally, whatever the speaker intends to
mean, regardless of the actual words he uses.  So there's nothing wrong with
asking "Do you know what time it is" when you want to know the time.

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Richard Kennaway          SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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