Re: comments on CONN.TXT

[ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>]

Jorge:
> > 7. 13.7 "An imperative sentence [lio] is true if the command is obeyed".
> > The discussion is potentially misleading. It should be explained that
> > one could obey the command not only by bringing tea, but also by instead
> > making this not be coffee. Therefore it is only an approximate and
> > misleading translation of the English.
> I'm glad you think that. The fact that {do} is an argument of the
> command is purely circumstantial, that's why I think that an attitudinal
> is much better than {ko} for imperatives. In other words, "act so as to
> make it true that X happens" does not need {do} to be an argument of X
> in general.

Is there no UI that'll do this? I imagine that {ko} was influenced
partly by English imperatives and partly by the wish to make imperatives
that contain references to the addressee one cmavo shorter.
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And