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Verbing weirds language
- To: lojban-list@lojban.org
- Subject: Verbing weirds language
- From: "Philip Newton" <pnewton@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:14:16 +0100
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I was thinking of Calvin's statement that "every noun can be verbed".
Then I considered how to say that in Lojban, before realising that it's
probably meaningless there.
I think the equivalent in Lojban grammatical terms would be roughly
"every brivla can be used as a selbri", but if you told a Lojbanist
that, they'd probably react as if you had said "every gismu has five
letters", since both statements are (to me) tautologies.
</random musing>
mu'o mi'e .filip.
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filip.niutyn. <pnewton@gmx.de>