From cowan@ccil.org Sun Jul 30 21:17:06 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20214 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2000 04:17:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Jul 2000 04:17:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2000 04:17:06 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA03062; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:01:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:01:00 -0400 (EDT) To: Jim Carter Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] tertirxu In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Jim Carter wrote: > I was disappointed when > Lojban drifted off in the direction of custom-crafting each predicate's > definition according to which arguments are most important to it. The Lojban theory of gismu place assignment is explained, as well as I can, at http://www.lojban.org/files/reference-grammar/chap12.html#s16 . -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"