Re: [lojban] Re: Learning Lojban

[robin <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>]

xod wrote:
> Pierre Abbat wrote:
>
> > On Monday 31 May 2004 08:45, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > --- Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR> wrote:
> > >   
> > >
> > > > Lojban does not have nouns, verbs etc., and I am
> > > > convinced that our endless debates about Lojban articles are partly
> > > > caused by the fact that we still think of them as articles.
> > > >     
> > >
> > > Sounds right. I think the best way to think of {lo} is as
> > > a selbri-to-sumti converter, without any additional baggage.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > To someone who doesn't know Lojban, "selbri" and "sumti" are semantic 
> > zeros. The closest terms in English, I think, are "verb phrase" and 
> > "noun phrase",  
>
> A closer analogy might be Function and Arguments.
Absolutely. IIRC, Nick and I put that in one of the notes to the lessons.

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