From pycyn@aol.com Thu Sep 21 14:24:06 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_0_2); 21 Sep 2000 21:24:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 5350 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2000 21:24:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 21 Sep 2000 21:24:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r08.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.8) by mta2 with SMTP; 21 Sep 2000 21:24:05 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.15.) id a.18.2923900 (4509) for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:23:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <18.2923900.26fbd66b@aol.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:23:55 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Glossers, translators, and other tools ... To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4358 I fear that kir may have it right, though the most prolific Lojban writers of the moment work hard at being un-average-European. So far the outstanding features of these efforts seem to be a very (at least un-English) marked increase in the use of emotive words, ellipses, and deviations from SVO order (to SOVO', basically). I'm not sure what native Lojban would look like - logic is VSO and prenex.