From graywyvern@hotmail.com Mon Jul 31 11:20:36 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 761 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2000 18:20:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 31 Jul 2000 18:20:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.237.118) by mta1 with SMTP; 31 Jul 2000 18:20:35 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:20:35 -0700 Received: from 209.176.48.29 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.176.48.29] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:20:35 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Jul 2000 18:20:35.0544 (UTC) FILETIME=[05409D80:01BFFB1C] From: "michael helsem" >From: "T. Peter Park" It is quite possible to write Lojban in the manner you suggest, e.g. "le broda je brode je brodi" instead of a nounlike gismu, in which "broda", "brode", "brodi" are its sensory attributes. However, this relies rather heavily upon context for disambiguation, & unless we speak Lojban that way face to face, a lot of the conversation is going to consist of "ki'a", "uonai" & "ke'o"... (BTW, hi from ex-APALingua/Linguica!) co'omi'e maiky'elsym. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com