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[lojban-beginners] Re: grasping lojban
la aizek cusku di'e
> By degree of a word, I mean concepts like, "very", "somewhat", "not",
> "slightly", "completely/infinitely", "rather", etc..
These can be done with predicates (mutce, milxe, toltce), with
the predicate modifiers of selma'o NAhE (na'e, to'e, no'e, ja'e)
which can in turn be further modified with members of CAI:
(cai, sai, ru'e, cu'i).
> For example, Arovën has logical operators for "and", "or", "xor",
> inverted "xor", and such that operate on clauses.
Lojban has a full set of binary operators. See:
http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter14.html
> Plurals are usually
> marked for collective, which functions as a set, or partitive. There are
> set operators for union, disjoint union, intersection, exclusion,
> exclusive union, and so forth, which are inflected for whatever position
> they take.
Lojban has most of those too, but sets in Lojban are considered as true
mathematical sets and so are hardly used. For example a set whose members
are three people can't carry a piano. The three people acting together
can, but that is called "mass" rather than "set" in Lojban tradition.
> Operand elements are filtered and combined into the resulting
> set, and all operators are inflected for depth when nested. How does all
> this work in lojban?
See the above link. Perhaps you could give a concrete example to see
how it is done in Lojban.
> Also, how do you make if-then constructions?
Logical if-then is {ga nai ... gi ...}, which can also be
read as "either not ... or ... (or both)"
> Where can I find an explanation of motion-tenses?
http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter10.html
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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