[lojban] Re: Learning Lojban

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Monday 31 May 2004 08:45, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> --- Robin Turner <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR> wrote:
> >  Lojban does not have nouns, verbs etc., and I am
> > convinced that our endless debates about Lojban articles are partly
> > caused by the fact that we still think of them as articles.
>
> Sounds right. I think the best way to think of {lo} is as
> a selbri-to-sumti converter, without any additional baggage.

To someone who doesn't know Lojban, "selbri" and "sumti" are semantic zeros. 
The closest terms in English, I think, are "verb phrase" and "noun phrase", 
and it's important to note that a bare noun cannot be used as a noun phrase 
in Lojban, whereas it can in English, French, and most other languages I 
know.

phma
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li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa