Received: from rlpowell by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Rbb53-0005EB-13; Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:56:21 -0800 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:56:20 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: Lim Chia Hau Cc: lojban@lojban.org Subject: Re: Questions regarding lojban Message-ID: <20111216165620.GH14109@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: Lim Chia Hau , lojban@lojban.org References: <07E4807D-78FE-4E44-8CD0-94FE1A154D28@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <07E4807D-78FE-4E44-8CD0-94FE1A154D28@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 06:53:00PM +0800, Lim Chia Hau wrote: > Hi, > > I've just begun to learn lojban a few days ago. And i find it > rather fun. So thank you for providing all this information. :) > While going through the tutorials i've noticed that normally in a > sentence before a cmene you use la. Why is it done this way? Why > can't it be like unless is specified it is always presumed to be > la? Kinda like in java, where all methods are presumed to be > protected unless otherwise specified. > > To make it clearer here an example: > > normally you would say: > la mari,as. dunda la .iulias. la klaudias. > > what i am saying: > mari,as. dunda .iulias. klaudias. Because {.iulias. klaudias.} is one name. People have first and last names, or more, in most cultures, so we need to be able to handle that. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/