From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Aug 13 13:52:05 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E42yz-000801-5x for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:51:57 -0700 Received: from [208.234.8.229] (helo=intelligenesiscorp.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1E42yu-0007zu-Kw for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:51:57 -0700 Received: from zombiethustra (pcp06586041pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net [69.140.24.121]) by intelligenesiscorp.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id j7DKpmJo012764 for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:51:49 -0400 From: "Ben Goertzel" To: Subject: [lojban] Re: Loglish: A Modest Proposal Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:51:47 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 10331 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: ben@goertzel.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > Have you seen this? http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Anglan I see that paragraph, and some other very brief discussions http://nuzban.wiw.org/archive/9511/msg00134.html but Googling doesn't reveal any concrete and specific proposals along these lines, only vague suggestions. > Also, it would be interesting to hear if you have any thoughts about how > to create place structures with valencies higher than 1 in Loglish. My idea, as explained in the document I linked to, is the "quu" modifier. For instance, to say "Saddam is good at sex" one would say "Saddam good sex quu criterion" This indicates that Saddam is good, and that the criterion by which goodness is being evaluated is sex There is flexibility here, in that one can use anything following the quu, that one thinks will lead the listener to assign the word/phrase preceding the quu to the proper argument position. This is parallel to the proposed qui mechanism that specifies word-senses, e.g. "Ben good write qui author quu criterion, Ben na good write qui physical quu criterion" means "Ben is good at writing in the sense of authoring, but Ben is not good at writing in the sense of physical handwriting." -- Ben To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.