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[213.165.64.23]) by gmr-mx.google.com with SMTP id p49si3991244eef.0.2012.02.24.09.04.39; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:04:40 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of seladwa@gmx.de designates 213.165.64.23 as permitted sender) client-ip=213.165.64.23; Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2012 17:04:39 -0000 Received: from p57A08BE3.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [192.168.1.33]) [87.160.139.227] by mail.gmx.net (mp031) with SMTP; 24 Feb 2012 18:04:39 +0100 X-Authenticated: #54293076 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18ceuFicsYcMpbLiiAfZCAZFnoqFiSLxurlLqscMG 6oydg35Dy3Nkc6 Message-ID: <4F47C325.8030902@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:04:37 +0100 From: selpa'i User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] An opinion against Lojban/Loglan References: <8249158.105.1330078848621.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynjn6> <201202240849.09497.phma@phma.optus.nu> In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Original-Sender: seladwa@gmx.de X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of seladwa@gmx.de designates 213.165.64.23 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=seladwa@gmx.de Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060209070901080904080602" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam_score: 0.0 X-Spam_score_int: 0 X-Spam_bar: / This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060209070901080904080602 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed No, Loglan had cases, similar to BAI, but not quite the same. For example you'd have a case tag that tagged "recipient" or "agent". So with dunda, you could use the recipient tag to mark the recipient instead of having to put it in dunda3. The difference is that these tags were much less specific and there were only a bit over 10 of these so more overlap occured. Am 24.02.2012 17:09, schrieb Michael Turniansky: > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Pierre Abbat > wrote: > > On Friday, February 24, 2012 05:20:48 gleki wrote: > > This was posted earlier today in the Russian group of lidepla > language. > > The following is written allegedly by Stephen Rice according to > the author > > of the group but it's not confirmed by anyone else. Anyway there > will be no > > confirmation. > > What's your opinion about the following ? > > > > Briefly: I don't consider either Loglan or Lojban viable auxlangs. > > They weren't designed for it. Their use of logical predicate > > structure, while making simple sentences easy to produce, also > bloats > > the lexicon, because you technically need a new predicate every time > > you change the underlying structure--something regular languages use > > adpositions to do. Unfortunately, they weren't designed for ease of > > derivation, either: Loglanists were originally supposed to chain > > together individual predicate words, much as in Toki Pona. The > > language was designed for that--it still is, despite some retrofits. > > Lojban does have adpositions (sumtcita). All members of BAI are > prepositions, > and tense markers can also be used as prepositions. > > > From a linguistic standpoint, the relationships differ sharply; as > > logical predicates, however, their structures are identical. Loglan > > mitigated this with a system of case tags, which the Lojbanists > > rejected. My Loglan 2.0 would be based on such a case system. > > What does he mean? > > > I assumed here he WAS talking about BAI, but I could be wrong. > --gejyspa > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "lojban" group. > To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. -- lo xlarai se cinmo cu ka nonkansa kei na gi'e ka ba'o se tolmorji zo'e noi do ba ze'e na kakne lo nu tolmorji fi ke'a -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. --------------060209070901080904080602 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 No, Loglan had cases, similar to BAI, but not quite the same. For example you'd have a case tag that tagged "recipient" or "agent". So with dunda, you could use the recipient tag to mark the recipient instead of having to put it in dunda3. The difference is that these tags were much less specific and there were only a bit over 10 of these so more overlap occured.


Am 24.02.2012 17:09, schrieb Michael Turniansky:


On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Friday, February 24, 2012 05:20:48 gleki wrote:
> This was posted earlier today in the Russian group of lidepla language.
> The following is written allegedly by Stephen Rice according to the author
> of the group but it's not confirmed by anyone else. Anyway there will be no
> confirmation.
> What's your opinion about the following ?
>
> Briefly: I don't consider either Loglan or Lojban viable auxlangs.
> They weren't designed for it. Their use of logical predicate
> structure, while making simple sentences easy to produce, also bloats
> the lexicon, because you technically need a new predicate every time
> you change the underlying structure--something regular languages use
> adpositions to do. Unfortunately, they weren't designed for ease of
> derivation, either: Loglanists were originally supposed to chain
> together individual predicate words, much as in Toki Pona. The
> language was designed for that--it still is, despite some retrofits.

Lojban does have adpositions (sumtcita). All members of BAI are prepositions,
and tense markers can also be used as prepositions.

> From a linguistic standpoint, the relationships differ sharply; as
> logical predicates, however, their structures are identical. Loglan
> mitigated this with a system of case tags, which the Lojbanists
> rejected. My Loglan 2.0 would be based on such a case system.

What does he mean?


   I assumed here he WAS talking about BAI, but I could be wrong.
                    --gejyspa
 
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