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In a message dated 9/27/2002 3:39:31 PM Central Daylight Time, jjllambias@hotmail.com writes: << If I understand correctly, "the usual language of formal >> Taxicab again. Now I see your point: the Lojban is neither out in front marking out in front nor inside marking inside, so what is logical about it? Answer -- historical and JCB-related (and we know what that means): English represents ~Fab by a~Fb, even when a is a quantified expression (though not always), so the way that natural langauges represent ~Fab is a~Fb (this is still pretty much true for SAE, with variants -- less true for French, if I remember rightly; I don't remember the distribution for Spanish cases; pretty true for German), so Loglan (hence, Lojban) should represent ~Fab (even if a is quantified, i.e., ~ QxFxb) as a~Fb. Yeah, I know, but that is sorta how it went and we are stuck with it (although I don't find it that hard to deal with, since it is so like (my) English). To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. |