From pnewton@gmx.de Mon Nov 10 01:14:24 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 10 Nov 2003 01:14:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from postman2.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.188] helo=postman.arcor.de) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AJ87l-0003gX-Ew for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 01:14:17 -0800 Received: from hamwpne1 (cou.ch [212.13.198.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAA9ELgj010297 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:14:23 +0100 (MET) From: "Philip Newton" Organization: datenrevision GmbH & Co. OHG To: lojban-list@lojban.org Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:14:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [lojban] Verbing weirds language Message-ID: <3FAF64F8.31446.1F7B3E@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-description: Mail message body X-archive-position: 6612 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pnewton@gmx.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list I was thinking of Calvin's statement that "every noun can be verbed". Then I considered how to say that in Lojban, before realising that it's probably meaningless there. I think the equivalent in Lojban grammatical terms would be roughly "every brivla can be used as a selbri", but if you told a Lojbanist that, they'd probably react as if you had said "every gismu has five letters", since both statements are (to me) tautologies. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- filip.niutyn.