Re: Lojban's imperfections?

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU>]

   1.  In Lojban, why is the first argument of a predicate put before that
   predicate?  ... Shouldn't the predicate be first, and then its
   arguments?

You are not limited to one or the other arrangement.  You have a
choice.  You can put the selbri at the end or at the beginning or
elsewhere, and scramble the order of the sumti.

To use the canonical example:

        mi la bastn. la .atlantas. le dargu le karce cu klama
         I to-Boston from-Atlanta via-the road using-the car, go.

        klama fa mi la bastn. la .atlantas. le dargu le karce
          go,  I to-Boston from-Atlanta via-the road using-the car

See the nearly baselined version of the chapter called `places.txt' which
you can ftp from

    ftp.access.digex.net

    /pub/access/lojbab/draft-reference-grammar/

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