[lojban] Re: Opinions, please: SA by structure

[Philip Newton <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:55:16 -0800, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> Does this make sense to you?

Yes.

> Does it seem like it would be easier to use?
> 
> Does it seem like it would be easier to learn?

I can imagine so.

I'd also say that not being able to continue a quote is a fairly small
price to pay.

> Any other comments?

My Lojban isn't good enough to determine the full repercussions of
either method, so I can't say whether either one will make certain
things too difficult. But the proposed new method seems, on the
surface, to be conceptually simple to learners.

One question -- what would {mi vecnu do lo cukta sa lo cukta do} mean?
The same as {mi vecnu lo cukta do} ("I'm selling you to the books, uh,
the books to you") or as {mi vecnu do lu cukta do} ("I'm selling you
to the books, uh, to the books for the cost of yourself")?

If the latter, how to get the result of the former? Would I have to
erase back to the brivla and go {mi vecnu do lo cukta sa vecnu lo
cukta do}? (Which would currently mean, apparently, {mi vecnu do lo
vecnu lo cukta do} or "I'm selling you to the books, uh, salesman for
the price of books" with a leftover "do" for x5 of vecnu.)

mu'o mi'e .filip.
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>