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[lojban-beginners] Re: la



On 6/18/07, m.kornig@sondal.net <m.kornig@sondal.net> wrote:
Hi again,

Consider the following sentences:

{mi'e klaus.} {mi'e pat.}

{mi'e la klaus} and {mi'e la pat} are valid too.

on the one hand and

{la pat. melbi .i la klaus. prami la pat.}

on the other.

On the one hand you have the names {klaus.}
and {pat.}. Then you have the people {la klaus.}
and {la pat.}.

The names are actually {zo klaus} and {zo pat}.

{klaus} and {pat} are somewhat like brivla. You can say
{le pondo}, or {coi pendo}, but if you want to talk about the
word it's {zo pendo}.

At least this is my understanding
of the presence of {la} in the second set of
example sentences.

Why can't Lojban just identify people with
their names (as all other languages seem to do)?

Some languages do use articles with names.

{la} seems to be an unnecessary complication. Why
can't we just say {pat. melbi .i klaus. prami pat.}?

I would actually prefer to go the other way and make cmevla have
the exact same grammar of brivla, rather than just a very similar one.

mu'o mi'e xorxes