[lojban-beginners] Re: learning lojban

[Carl Lumma <carl@lumma.org>]

At 11:22 AM 3/1/2007, you wrote:
>  Well, yes and no.  There really aren't nouns and verbs.  The same
>words function as nouns, verbs, adjective and adverbs.  For example, in
>English, "blue" is general considered to be an adjective, and "sky" is
>generally considered to be a noun.  But in the sentence, "The paint
>store ran out of sky blue", suddenly sky functionas as an adjective and
>blue the noun.  The equivalent in lojban  is "lo tsani blanu" and "lo
>blanu tsani". In tanru sumti, all except the rightmost brivla function
>as adjectives, and the last as a noun, and in tanru selbri, all but the
>rightmost brivla function as adverbs, and the rightmost as a verb "lo
>blanu tsani cu sutra bajra" => "The blue sky runs quickly"  "lo tsani
>blanu cu bajra sutra" => "The sky blue is runningly fast" .  The key
>here is that they FUNCTION as certain parts of speech, but can take on
>any of those roles, depending on the slot, so the language doesn't have
>any fixed nouns, verbs, adjecvtive, or adverbs.
>
>                        --gejyspa

Does it have sentences?

-Carl