RE: [lojban] Re: Learning Lojban

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>>>> 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",
>>
>>

>A closer analogy might be Function and Arguments.

Closer, yess, but less good when the goal is to explain it from the
standpoint of natural language grammar.

 - mi'e .kreig.daniyl.

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