Return-Path: Received: by marob.masa.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.7) id ; Sat, 16 Dec 89 12:25 EST Received: by hombre.MASA.COM (smail2.5) id AA01480; 16 Dec 89 12:23:20 EST (Sat) Received: from bpa.UUCP by rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.3/3.04) with UUCP id AA24907; Sat, 16 Dec 89 07:56:09 EST Received: by bpa.bell-atl.com (Smail3.1.17.5) id ; Sat, 16 Dec 89 07:25 EST Received: by vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (5.51/smail2.5/03-15-88) id AA23795; Sat, 16 Dec 89 04:05:06 EST Received: by snark.uu.net (smail2.3) id AA12605; 16 Dec 89 03:35:04 EST (Sat) Received: from MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU by uunet.uu.net (5.61/1.14) with SMTP id AA25277; Fri, 15 Dec 89 22:34:40 -0500 Received: from ai.ai.mit.edu by mintaka.lcs.mit.edu id aa25171; 15 Dec 89 22:33 EST Date: Fri, 15 Dec 89 22:36:52 EST From: "Keith F. Lynch" Subject: Re: grammar To: mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!"est@cs.nyu.edu" Cc: ai.ai.mit.edu!KFL, uunet!snark!lojban-list Message-Id: <680060.891215.KFL@AI.AI.MIT.EDU> Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Sat Dec 16 12:25:38 1989 X-From-Space-Address: hombre!ai.ai.mit.edu!KFL > The actor of gerna is that which "grammars". lojban takes this to be > the grammar itself. Once I understand why that is, I will be well on my way to fully understanding the language. Currently, it's not clear to me why it is the grammar which "grammars", rather than a person or a language, or how to tell just what the X1 place is for all the other gismu. I know I'm not supposed to categorize gismu into nouns, verbs, etc, but I find that in the ones that seem to be nouns, the X1 place is always (?) is a . With adjectives, is seems to hold. And with verbs, does , i.e. is a er. > .eirik. tideman. You spell your first name differently than .erek. reimnd. > "la simon. cu cusku lu ko zutse ledo skami li'u" No, I refuse to sit on my computer. Anyhow, I think his name is spelled saimn. ...Keith