Re: [lojban] Re: citri lo glibau

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 10/28/05, Adam COOPER <adamgarrigus@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think {se sadgunta je tolselctu} {ke natmrkamri tercange [ke'e]} *is* what
> I meant. And I think the undertone is that the peasants were Welsh by birth,
> but their being uneducated & conquered were circumstances that could have
> worked out differently. So {natmrkamri} wants to be bound more closely to
> {tercange}. That being said, it's an anachronistic view, because back then
> such a person was as much a peasant by birth as he was Welsh, whereas now
> you can be born into a tenant farming or small-holding family, but go on to
> become a poet. But you're still Welsh.

Hmm... In the context, reasons are being provided for why English
lost many inflections. Presumably the fact that many speakers were
conquered & uneducated & Welsh & peasants is said to have
contributed to this. Does the ordering and grouping have anything
to do with the fact that these words are noun, pure adjective,
verbal adjectives in English? Would saying {tercange je natmrkamri
je tolselctu je se sadgunta} for example give a very different impression?
Are "essential" properties more likely to appear as tertau and
"accidental" ones as seltau?

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