Subject: Re: Englishistic

From: "Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 20:55:47 -0000

--- In [email-masked], pycyn@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 00-07-01 18:06:24 EDT, xod writes:
> 
> << All these intense discussions of the intricacies of Lojban
grammar occur
> in English. I wonder how different they would be were they
conducted in a
> different natural language! It should be attempted, even if by a
reduced
> set of the participants. >>
> 
> And most of the languages we do sorta know (German, 
> French, Spanish, say) are so much like English in all but the forms
they take 
> (and often rather like that too) that we might as well stick to
English -- 
> hoping that those who are at home elsewhere will jump on too
Englishistic 
> cases (is "yet/still/already" one?)

As far I can see, "yet/still/already etc." are quite the same in most
European languages: also "no longer" (=not more) seems 
equivalent - "nicht mehr", "non ... plus", "non ... piu`", "nu mai":
Yet Hungarian is different: már (=already), mármár=almost, 
csak már=only left - and *már nem=no longer*(!)

co'o mi'e .aulun.