Received: from mail-vc0-f189.google.com ([209.85.220.189]:65470) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Stt3A-00010K-G8; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:18:23 -0700 Received: by vcbfl10 with SMTP id fl10sf302324vcb.16 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:18:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:date:from:to:message-id:in-reply-to:references:subject :mime-version: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=P0hHEFEipAYgkBqHM6AucrM4RS+5ohdge05GHnC1vOE=; b=sSTmaCejtZUL9SUFxxM44fZl89moFMRaISi386q8FWnMRjAOCh0yz90RVixfVpN9Tm wW/83gvMfLrRH7HwPVo3uNbGOq02tJh65jvusKbduAO4rKCTChEMW58pAilUhm5yOR3h BFeiSwU7zr0wqEQ+SP/NRtuF6fvL89SouKCRg= Received: by 10.52.34.8 with SMTP id v8mr2390452vdi.5.1343189889544; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:18:09 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.220.223.77 with SMTP id ij13ls80637vcb.1.gmail; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.34.8 with SMTP id v8mr2390451vdi.5.1343189888260; Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:18:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Gleki Arxokuna To: lojban@googlegroups.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <2abfa90c-6902-4f2c-9ebb-3afa9f7c87b8@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [lojban] Loglandic N-paradigm. Is it worthy of examination? MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com designates internal as permitted sender) smtp.mail=gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com 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="----=_Part_19_14147716.1343189887953" X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / ------=_Part_19_14147716.1343189887953 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I forgot to explain the following. In English or any other European language you can attach a limited number of prepositions to any verb. You can say "Give it to me" but can't say "Give it at me". So when learning any European language you just have to memorise what prepositions (or cases) you can use with each verb just like in Lojban you memorise full gismu definitions. The only difference that prepositions (or cases) are chosen mostly arbitrarily in each language. Sometimes the choice is based on culture-specific metaphors or any other stuff that could probably be found in the history of the language. Loglan just builds another set of such preposition deviating from the major line of a logical culture-neutral langauge. Yes, it's naturalistic. No, it's not neutral. I can see no other way of solving this global problem except either using FA or ignoring sumti places in favor of appropriate BAI. Anybody suggests the third way? On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 3:03:53 AM UTC+4, xorxes wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Jonathan Jones > wrote: > > > > The list of words on > > the linked page is also far from exhaustive and each word is itself > > extremely general. > > I believe the list is exhaustive. Every argument place is assigned to > one of the eleven cases, which is why they have to be so general. > > mu'o mi'e xorxes > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lojban/-/EymluCRVPiMJ. 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. ------=_Part_19_14147716.1343189887953 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I forgot to explain the following.
In English or any other European lan= guage you can attach a limited number of prepositions to any verb.
You can say "Give it to me" but can't say "Give it at me". So when learni= ng any European language you just have to memorise what prepositions (or ca= ses) you can use with each verb just like in Lojban you memorise full gismu= definitions.
The only difference that prepositions (or cases) ar= e chosen mostly arbitrarily in each language. Sometimes the choice is based=  on culture-specific metaphors or any other stuff that could probably = be found in the history of the language.

Logl= an just builds another set of such preposition deviating from the major lin= e of a logical culture-neutral langauge.
Yes, it's naturalistic. = No, it's not neutral.
I can see no other way of solving this glob= al problem except either using FA or ignoring sumti places in favor of appr= opriate BAI.
Anybody suggests the third way?
On Wednesday, Jul= y 25, 2012 3:03:53 AM UTC+4, xorxes wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote= :
>
> The list of words on
> the linked page is also far from exhaustive and each word is itsel= f
> extremely general.

I believe the list is exhaustive. Every argument place is assigned to
one of the eleven cases, which is why they have to be so general.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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