From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Fri May 14 08:29:08 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 14 May 2004 08:29:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41902.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.153]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.32) id 1BOecG-0005nr-3u for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 08:28:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20040514152819.8854.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web41902.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 14 May 2004 08:28:19 PDT Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 08:28:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: word for "action" To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <200405141048.26688.phma@webjockey.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 7844 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Pierre Abbat wrote: > If he's looking for a word meaning "a Lojban word corresponding > to an English verb", I don't think he'll find one. I speculate he wants to class some gismu as describing activities, processes, changes of state, and such but not including states or "essences" (or whatever "being a person" is.) > If he wants a word meaning "a Lojban > verb", we have one: {brivla}. Since what concepts are expressed > by which part of speech varies widely among languages (e.g. many > English prepositions are expressed in Hebrew by nouns in the construct > state, as are the verb phrases "there is" and "there isn't"), I see > nothing wrong with calling English verbs brivla or Lojban brivla verbs. I agree, but I think he is not so interested in grammatical categories as in conceptual ones. Every gismu is a brivla, but he wants to sort gismu into subclasses, such as gismu describing colours, gismu describing "actions", and so on. mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/