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Subject: Re: [lojban] Introduction to Lojban. How to quickly create sentences
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:10:09 -0500
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On Sunday, February 02, 2014 09:54:13 Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> But many English words that we know as "nouns" are not nouns.
> 
> "A traveller to London is crazy." = {lo litru be la .lyndyn. cu fenki}
> Isn't "traveller" a noun?

It's a noun derived from a verb. In English, a prepositional phrase can modify 
a verb, noun, or adjective. You can say "I travel the Tube", but "A traveller 
the Tube is crazy" is ungrammatical.

> The point of this course to make others feel Lojban is an easy language
> close to English (and other similar languages like French, Russian,
> German). That's why any alien terminology and even constructs are to be
> removed.

Lojban isn't an Indo-European language. When learning Hebrew, one encounters 
alien terminology, such as "lamed he verb" and "hishtaph`el", which describe 
features peculiar to Semitic languages. Some common verbs, such as "`asah" (to 
make), are lamed he verbs, so you can't avoid them.

> For Japanese speakers there should be a separate introduction probably with
> topic-comment style.

lo xanto zo'u lo nazbi cu clani

mu'omi'e .pier.
-- 
gau do li'i co'e kei do

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