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Re: [lojban] Shakespearian word order
> > LEAR: Dost thou call me fool, boy? John Cowan
> > FOOL: All thy other titles http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
> > thou hast given away: jcowan@reutershealth.com
> > That thou wast born with. http://www.reutershealth.com
> >
>
> We can imitate the strange word order in Lojban by using a postnex:
>
> ro le do drata noltcita do se bejdu'a zo'au ny poi do se jinzi
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
{ro lo do drata noltcita poi do se jinzi} is better meaningwise. I
can't see a way to get that with the discontinuous/extrapositional
word order.