[lojban] Re: Lojban Vs. Esperanto

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

la adam cusku di'e

> Esperanto has fairly free word order, but it's not *that* free.
> That sentence in Esperanto is "Johano mortigis la viron, kiu havis
> la trancxilon". The relative pronoun "kiu" ("who") is in the nominative,
> thus clearly showing that the man is the subject of the subordinate
> clause. You can't move nouns out of the clause that contains them,
> and I would be surprised if it's possible in any language (it 
> certainly isn't in Lojban).

I'm not sure if this would count, but in Lojban you can take a noun 
out of its clause and topicalize it:

    le dakfu zo'u la djan pu catra le nanmu poi jgari dy
    The knife: John killed the man that had it.

Presumably you can do this sort of thing in English and Esperanto
too, but it is not so idiomatic.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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