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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:35:30PM -0600, jkominek@miranda.org
wrote:
> 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"

Actually, no.

mi'e is in COI, hence {mi'e .xal.} and {mi'e la .xal.} are
functionally identical.

You (Jay) are thinking of {mi se cmene la .xal.} versus {mi se cmene
zo .xal.}.  The former is "My name is named Hal", the latter is "My
name is 'Hal'".

> > 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.

Someone made a nice tweak to the web-based jbofihe thingy that
outputted pretty colours for the sections, too, but I keep
forgetting to do something with it.

-Robin

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