Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:26:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710231726.MAA05987@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: And Rosta Sender: Lojban list From: And Rosta Organization: University of Central Lancashire Subject: Re: The design of Lojban X-To: LOJBAN@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1039 Lines: 25 Xorxes to Markl: > >Don't try to think > >about defending your country, or your property, in Lojban; > >people can't defend anything in Lojban; only events can do > >that, because the x1 place of {bandu} must be an _event_. [...] > >Perhaps someone, or some event, would care to defend Lojban > >against this charge? > > Lojbab has said that he sometimes sees people as events, so > event Lojbab may yet happen to defend it. :) I agree with Lojbab here (always surprises me when that happens). To my mind, restricting a tersumti to a nu serves only to exclude abstract objects like numbers, ka, du`u, and so on. Colin Fine once did a systematic study of the ontological nature of each tersumti of each gismu. I would like to look this up. Would anyone happen to know whether it is archived, and how one might find it? (In those days, Colin was the number 1 poster (the Jorge of his day) to Lojban list, so a search for "Colin Fine" is not going to do much good.) I would guess 1994 for a date for this. --And.