Re: [lojban] Re: semantic primes

[Alex Joseph Martini <alexjm@umich.edu>]

This sounds to me like an excellent idea. In any case, it would greatly
improve the clarity of the definitions. (See the discussion of {pritu}
in lojban-beginners for an example of such confusion.) The majority of
definitions (that I've looked at) on jbovlaste are currently written in
a highly compressed style, typical of paper dictionaries that just don't
have the space for longer entries.

mu'omi'e .aleks.

to de'i 2006 pi'e 03 pi'e 17 la'e zoi xy. John E Clifford xy. ciska toi

> Yes, that would be the sort of thing I have in
> mind.  Lojban clearly has all the current primes
> and the requisite grammatical forms.  I haven't
> tried either the English or the Lojban NSM for
> any word yet, but here is a same from another
> language, toki pona:
>
> X tawa Y e Z =
> At one time Z is in a place A
> X does something B to Z
> Because of this Z is in a different place Y.
> When Z is not mentioned it is X or a part of X
> When B is mentioned, it comes before tawa and the
> object Z becomes attached to B, moving in front
> of tawa.
>
> Something along this line for every predicate (at
> least) in Lojban would be nice (the paraphrases
> don't have to go back to basics so long as other
> terms are defined using only more basic terms).
>
>
> [ li'o ]