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Re: [lojban] Lojban / Most translated Web Page
At 01:13 PM 05/08/2000 +0000, you wrote:
> As I just said about some other meshugash, this "logical" has nothing
to do
> with Lojban being a logical language, and so that line of chat is
irrelevant
> here. The pattern of relevance for the order of things is consistently
> throughout the language "most used first" (or "least used last") so
long as
> it is consistent with the basic design.
wrong.
The structure of lojban tanru is like yyyy-mm-dd: central part in the
end, delimiting peripherals prepended (or elided) as far as necessitated
by the context.
A date is not a tanru; it is more similar to a name. You seem to be
arguing on the basis of restriction, and Lojban restricts using relative
clauses/phrases (poi/pe/po/po'u) which can go either before or after a
sumti but are less marked after the sumti. In general, restrictive
information goes later in the sentence (tanru being an exception, but
turning a tanru into a relative clause also moves the restriction to the
right in default).
lojbab
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