Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:59:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199802121659.LAA18341@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Rick Nylander Sender: Lojban list From: Rick Nylander Subject: Re: more perversity (was Re: more epistemic perversity (was Re: .i . X-To: Lojban list To: John Cowan X-UIDL: a7cd9ddce7517289d3885f6925b54b97 Status: O X-Mozilla-Status: 8011 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Feb 17 10:11:00 1998 X-From-Space-Address: - Lojbab wrote: >Indeed the decision to baseline the place structures AT ALL, took place >over my objection. My intent was that the semantics should be totally >fluid. the reality is that the place structures as is constrain the >meanings of the words. Without reopening an old (and obviously irrelevant) argument, can you give us a short summary of how you anticipated the place structures being developed, if not by prescription? It would seem that any language, and in particular lojban, which has some kind of ordering defined (e.g. subject-verb-object, or X1 broda X2 X3) has to start with some agreement as to ordering of components and what those components mean in a given order (e.g. hitter hits hittee), or communication is impossible. Rik.