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[lojban-beginners] inversive linking
- To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
- Subject: [lojban-beginners] inversive linking
- From: tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:38:24 +0200
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I sometimes think it would have been convenient if linking/associating
sumtis in an inverted way (left to right) were possible. I have in
mind a construct exemplified by these English and Japanese phrases:
Ken's child's apple rolls.
Ken no kodomo no ringo ga korogaru.
Retaining the word order, we may translate this as:
lo lo la .ken. verba ku plise cu gunro
... which is somewhat counterintuitive. Wouldn't it be cool if we
could do the following ("pe'ei" being an experimental, inversive
version of "pe"):
la .ken. pe'ei lo verba pe'ei lo plise cu gunro
mu'o se ckire spuda mi'e tijlan