[lojban] Re: Help in examples ...

["Bruce Webber" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

> What I'm saying is that we may label things however we
> want as long as we get the meaning across. No
> particular way of labelling has magical effects.
> If someone wants to know how lojban works (I'm
> not saying to learn it), you must explain that
> {le karce cu blanu} means
> "car is blue", regardless of whether you say that
> {blanu} is a "gismu", a "verb" or a "pigeon".
> Using nouns that a lojbanist would approve off
> doesn't make things easier to understand at all.
>
> Regards,
>
> --jordi

Gismu capture relations.

So we could say {klama} is a verb, but {klama} is also part of {le klama}
(the traveller), {le se klama} (the destination), etc., which we call
nouns. By capturing the relationship of "going", we gain all these
additional uses of the same word.

Language useful to the extent that its structure matches the structure of
the world. Often English and other natural languages separate things and
identify things in ways that do not match the world very well. I like that
Lojban expresses relations, because structure is based on relations.

mi'e brus.