Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: thoughts on numerical language
In-Reply-To: <sc0cd74e.098@gwise-gw1.uclan.ac.uk> from And Rosta at "Dec 4, 2001
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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:39:55 -0500 (EST)
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And Rosta scripsit:

> There was once a Loglan reform project
> called Voksigid whose guiding idea (which then gives you an idea of
> the calibre of the project)

Is this praise, condemnation, or a mere neutral remark where "calibre" =
flavor?

>  was to dispense with sumti marked by
> word order and FA tags and to use only BAI tags.

A particularly nice feature was that sumti were expressed by root-tag
compounds, so that the selfsame tags had two uses: as tags, they indicated
the case (loosely stated) of the sumti in its bridi; as suffixes, they
indicated the derivation of the sumti from an underlying selbri root.

I particularly cherish the word "homotor", which combine the root
"homo" (prenu) with the suffix "-tor", agency.  "The agent in the
event of someone's being a person".  Just who is that?

-- 
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
Please leave your values        |       Check your assumptions.  In fact,
   at the front desk.           |          check your assumptions at the door.
     --sign in Paris hotel      |            --Miles Vorkosigan