Re: [lojban] Verbing weirds language

[Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>]

On Monday 10 November 2003 04:14, Philip Newton wrote:
> 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.

Actually the Lojban noun is the cmevla, but for common nouns we use brivla. 
There are no adjectives or adverbs in Lojban, and it has terminators, which 
occur in no other language that I know of, and the predicate marker, which 
occurs in tok Pisin.

phma
-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

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