The word order coup

[Nick Nicholas <opoudjis@optushome.com.au>]

The word order coup that Bob asks about is the realisation that

ro lo mikce cu tavla pa lo prenu

is different from

pa lo prenu cu se tavla ro lo mikce

because their intrinsic prenexes are different: AxEy vs. EyAx

xod and Robin had assumed that se-conversion is always always always 
meaning-preserving, so the second sentence would still mean each doctor 
talks to a person (not necessarily the same). xod found this painful 
enough, I gather, that he now thinks he might as well relearn all of 
Lojban.

If you disagree on this take on how prenexes work, please, let's not 
get into that right now.

--
Edarh oni oroumene NICK NICHOLAS PhD, French/Italian,
kouraste na mpa"inei, University of Melbourne, Australia
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