From cowan Fri Jun 14 10:29:38 1991 Return-Path: Message-Id: From: cowan (John Cowan) Subject: Re: names as predicates To: lojban-list Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 10:28:58 EDT In-Reply-To: <9106131824.AA21917@strident.think.com>; from "Guy Steele" at Jun 13, 91 2:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Status: RO la glis. cusku di'e: > Right. So if I can say mi du la glis. then why can't I say mi la glis. ? Because it's ungrammatical. Lojban is a language, not just a notation scheme, and "la" introduces a sumti. However, you can say "mi me la glis." Elegance bows to convenience; most of the time, you want to use a name as a sumti, not as a predicate. -- cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan e'osai ko sarji la lojban