Re: [lojban] Re: S-W/ was Re: (no subject)/Borges

["Arika Okrent" <arika@okrent.com>]

The effects on 
> world-view and
> habitual behavior is attributed to obligatory grammatical categories of a 
> language.  So,
> vocabulary plays no role in the matter at all

Except that so much of what would normally be represented by case systems, or classifier systems or other such grammatical apparatus is stuffed into the lexically specified (and therefore obligitory) argument structure of the gismu -- this is the aspect of the loglangs that is the strangest to me.  And also the place where the "classification of the universe" problem comes in.

-a

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Arika Okrent
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