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Re: [lojban] Shakespearian word order



> > LEAR: Dost thou call me fool, boy?      John Cowan
> > FOOL: All thy other titles              http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> >              thou hast given away:      jcowan@reutershealth.com
> >       That thou wast born with.         http://www.reutershealth.com
> > 
> 
> We can imitate the strange word order in Lojban by using a postnex:
> 
>  ro le do drata noltcita do se bejdu'a zo'au ny poi do se jinzi
> 
> mu'o mi'e xorxes

{ro lo do drata noltcita poi do se jinzi} is better meaningwise. I
can't see a way to get that with the discontinuous/extrapositional
word order.


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