[lojban-beginners] Re: A few questions...

[jkominek@miranda.org]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:22:00PM -0500, Hal Fulton wrote:
> Just a few random questions.
> 
> 1. Apparently people say {mi'e xal.} and not {mi'e la xal.} --
> is that just because "la" is understood and can be dropped?
> Do we ever omit it otherwise?

It is because you'd be saying "I am that which is named Hal", rather
than "I'm Hal"

> 2. I can't find names for the planets. Surely we have them?

See
http://www.lojban.org/tiki//tiki-index.php?page=SolarSystem&bl

> 3. Has anyone ever thought about coming up with a system for
> diagramming Lojban utterances? Or would anyone be interested?

jbofi'e can provide diagram-like output. Presumably you'd just
want to do it according to the machine grammar.

-- 
Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>