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On 08/04/2012 02:05 AM, Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> Ancient Greek and Russian have free word order. It means that instead of 
> "Yesterday I saw a big dog" you can literally say "Big yesterday saw dog I" 
> due to case markers.
> 
> Lojban currently can't split sumti apart.
> 
> {mi viska lo barda gerku} = {fe lo barda ku viska fe lo gerku fa mi}?
> This issue remains unsettled.
> ju'i jbobadna how are we going to translate Homer's magnificent style? 
> Again distorting his work of art like it is being done when translating it 
> to English? (Russian has other drawbacks in grammar).
> 
> *Therefore I suggest that if we have the same FA more than once in a bridi 
> it means that we can join them back with {je}. So*
> *{fe lo barda viska fe lo gerku fa mi} = {mi viska lo barda je gerku}.*
> *If you need to use joi, fa'u, jo'u or other connectives such partitioning 
> is not possible.*
> 
> 
> pei?

No language should strive to have every feature of every other language.
It's okay for lojban to be its own thing.

If a majority of the source languages have a feature that lojban lacks,
then that may indicate a problem, especially if English is in the
minority that lojban resembles.

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