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[lojban] Re: minimal lojban


Now take a look at N3 (which is a syntax for RDF)...

http://w3c.org/2000/10/swap/Primer.html

And you'll see how well it matches what we did with the "triplification" 
of Lojban.

Adam D. Lopresto 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.
>>    
>>
>
>I can see how it would work the other way, but I don't think that rules out
>what I wrote.  Translating my example into (probably slightly broken) lojban.
>
>.i abu. du'u klama
>.i by. pavyselsu'i abu.
>.i cy. relselsu'i abu.
>.i dy. cibyselsu'i abu.
>.i ebu. vonselsu'i abu.
>.i fy. mumselsu'i abu.
>
>where {ko'a pavyselsu'i ko'e} is basically {ko'e sumti ko'a li pa}, and is the
>the same as "first-sumti" relationship given above.  So "A" is the entire
>klama instance, and we relate it to each of the sumti that fill in places in
>it.  Notice that in the "tavla" example, even though we were filling in two
>places, we never said "A tavla B", but rather that "A isa tavla-instance",
>"A's first sumti is B", etc.
>
>At least, I thought I understood, for a brief moment there...
>  
>




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