Received: from mail-wg0-f61.google.com ([74.125.82.61]:63018) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SUqEU-0001V6-Ad; Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:31 -0700 Received: by wgbdt10 with SMTP id dt10sf940025wgb.16 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=+E46O+DiEHSDvhyL78hxdkwCpf7tmdnd/vu8ybS/+cw=; b=bA3IZyaLgp2Sa28RUZf5Nudhcx2XCf5OOi50Rd/ObeQBnA2KMzf2FZ0kksS8ZS/Q4W mSAKGH+EahvmRM1KAtsptS17MzHILOx4TP1/MDC84ceGRUncLqLy0/9VQJdM0pYOdYiE vqI3eAo5TOPkyxoounb9/dVOOEwbiPLaa7TyI= Received: by 10.216.142.160 with SMTP id i32mr127311wej.62.1337220856258; Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:16 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.14.37.139 with SMTP id y11ls195533eea.4.gmail; Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.127.4 with SMTP id c4mr1145520eei.3.1337220854518; Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.127.4 with SMTP id c4mr1145519eei.3.1337220854499; Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com (mail-ey0-f169.google.com [209.85.215.169]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b16si4154201eeg.3.2012.05.16.19.14.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of lorddraqo@gmail.com designates 209.85.215.169 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.215.169; Received: by eaan1 with SMTP id n1so517664eaa.14 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:14 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.100.130 with SMTP id z2mr931809eef.16.1337220854221; Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.189.10 with HTTP; Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3639382.1486.1337213982012.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcpi6> References: <3639382.1486.1337213982012.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcpi6> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 21:14:14 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] What can you do with Lojban that you can't do with English? From: Lee Carlson To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: lorddraqo@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of lorddraqo@gmail.com designates 209.85.215.169 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=lorddraqo@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec521592d008a8304c031fe1f X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / --bcaec521592d008a8304c031fe1f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Bill and Jeff were fighting and he hit him. Lojban makes explicit who hit whom. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Lindar wrote: > We we spit and bleed blue. > Do you spit blue? > > We have red chickens and cows. > Are the cows red? > > Bill and Jeff went to the store. > Did they go together? > > It's implicit in English and explicit in Lojban. Also the grammar is > predicate based. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lojban Beginners" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban-beginners/-/SgoU8dy14kQJ. > To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en. > > -- The World is a magical place, waiting for our senses to grow sharper. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en. --bcaec521592d008a8304c031fe1f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bill and Jeff were fighting and he hit him.
Lojban makes explicit who hi= t whom.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:19 PM, = Lindar <lindarthebard@gmail.com> wrote:
We we spit and bleed blue.
Do you spit blue?

We have red chickens and cows.
Are the cows red?

Bill and Jeff went to the store.
Did they go together?

It's implicit in English and explicit in Lojban. Also the grammar is pr= edicate based.

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