From a.rosta@lycos.co.uk Mon Sep 22 15:24:23 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 37996 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2003 22:24:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 22 Sep 2003 22:24:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lmsmtp04.st1.spray.net) (212.78.202.114) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 2003 22:24:23 -0000 Received: from oemcomputer (host213-121-68-25.surfport24.v21.co.uk [213.121.68.25]) by lmsmtp04.st1.spray.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B3547E8C for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:24:21 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <00df01c38158$46f0d7c0$5c360751@oemcomputer> To: References: <20030922193249.64388.qmail@web41904.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [lojban] Shakespearian word order Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:24:15 +0100 Organization: Livagian Consulate MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=122260811 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20755 > > LEAR: Dost thou call me fool, boy? John Cowan > > FOOL: All thy other titles http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > > thou hast given away: jcowan@reutershealth.com > > That thou wast born with. http://www.reutershealth.com > > > > We can imitate the strange word order in Lojban by using a postnex: > > ro le do drata noltcita do se bejdu'a zo'au ny poi do se jinzi > > mu'o mi'e xorxes {ro lo do drata noltcita poi do se jinzi} is better meaningwise. I can't see a way to get that with the discontinuous/extrapositional word order.