[lojban] Re: minimal lojban

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:23:05PM -0600, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Rapha?l Poss wrote:
> 
> >
> >Le 26 janv. 05, ? 22:34, Robin Lee Powell a ?crit :
> >
> >>On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:24:42PM -0500, Brian Eubanks wrote:
> >>>2. Reduce each Lojban utterance into a collection of binary
> >>>(2-sumti) predicates.
> >>
> >>Can you tell me how that works with, say, "da klama de di mi do"
> >>?
> 
> Why wouldn't it just be something like
> 
> A isa klama-instance
> A first-sumti B
> A second-sumti C
> A third-sumti D
> A fourth-sumti E
> A fifth-sumti F

Because "Reduce each Lojban utterance into a collection of
binary(2-sumti) predicates." would preclude that.  Hence my
question.  Why they're doing it that way, I don't know.

-Robin

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