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Re: [lojban] Lojban / Most translated Web Page
At 07:27 PM 05/08/2000 +0000, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
There are other examples of silly centrifugal order in German, e.g. "S 828
BGB", which is just an abbreviation for something like "Section 828 of the
Civil Law". Nobody can argue that it suits human thinking well to first
dive down into a section and then look up and see what body of law we are
talking about. There is no deeper meaning to these language conventions.
They are just habits that evolved out of the language's grammer pattern
and were never questioned, no matter how unpractical the results were.
I agree that they probably evolved out of the language's grammar pattern,
but you persist is seeing tanru as the more basic grammar pattern of
Lojban, and dates as being tanru, whereas the basic unambiguous structure
is the restrictive clause/phrase, or the added specified place on a
predicate (with a sumti tcita when necessary). Both of these tend to be
added to the end in Lojban, though there are ways to prepend them.
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