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[lojban] Re: is a gismu a selbri?
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- Subject: [lojban] Re: is a gismu a selbri?
- From: "Cyril Slobin" <slobin@ice.ru>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:36:08 +0300
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On 12/18/07, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> "gismu" is also not a part of speech in the usual sense. The parts
> of speech in Lojban would be BRIVLA, CMEVLA, A, BAI, ..., ZOhU.
I have just now discovered that English language has such a confusion.
Correct me if I am wrong, but... In English we can speak, say, about
the SVO order. "S" is for "Subject" here, and nobody mistakes "Subject"
with "Noun", although noun can (and often do) work as subject.
On the other hand, "V" is for "Verb", and we have one word where two
are need. I am rather illiterate in English, so the following question
may be stupid: which word relates to "verb" the same way as "subject"
relates to "noun"? In Russian there are two distinct terms, and people
are taught to distinguish them when they are about ten years ago.
--
Cyril Slobin <slobin@ice.ru> `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said,
http://wagner.pp.ru/~slobin/ `it means just what I choose it to mean'