On 7/13/06, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/13/06, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is a myth that English has more parts of speech than Lojban's more
> than a hundred.
Well, what I meant was that English tends rely more on differences in
parts of speech to communicate word grouping, whereas lojban depends,
more or less completely, on elidable terminators, and a few grouping
cmavo ({be}, {ke}, etc.).
OK, I mentioned that it is a myth because the claim is found in several Lojban documents. I'm not sure I agree that English relies on parts of speech more than Lojban though, because almost every English part of speech has some Lojban equivalent that is similarly used. I think English relies mostly on intonation to disambiguate potential ambiguities. mu'o mi'e xorxes