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Re: [lojban] Re: thoughts on numerical language



In a message dated 12/3/2001 5:48:15 PM Central Standard Time, thinkit8@lycos.com writes:


anyway, i was saying you can just represent it as "A gives B", with
side tag "with recipient".  Or "A gives to B", with side
tag "involving object".  English is pretty much binary, with
prepositional side tags.  It just turns out the 5 tags in lojban
makes things convenient and quick.


OK.  I now get one idea of what "numerical language" means.  From earlier stuff I get the idea that part of it is to have all vocabulary be numbers (? at least I think that is what I get).  What else is involved?  Can the fundamentals of the scheme be laid out in some clear but reelatively compact way?  Would you do that (one remembers that you still haven't explained what is wrong with Lojban by you)?