In a message dated 1/27/2002 7:57:03 PM Central Standard Time, a.rosta@ntlworld.com writes:any normative style is going to Not so, not so. Many SAE features are thoroughly lojbo: SVO and SOV, tense and negation position, and so on. The fact that a feature occurs in SAE does not mean that it is inappropriate for Lojban (after all, formal logic is an SAE invention and so likely to be somewhat that way, even though it is VSO). Of course, doing things SAE because that is what youare familiar with, rather than rethinking it in Lojban terms is objectionable -- but hard to prove. On the current issue, I would assume that the glossray order of arguments is the natural Lojban order and rearrangements need a reason, aesthetic, usually (get messy phrases to an end, copy another style, cadence, emphasis,...). |