[lojban] Re: Loglish: A Modest Proposal

[Jorge Llambías <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 8/15/05, Ben Goertzel <ben@goertzel.org> wrote:
> 
> As an example of the algorithms I described in my prior mail, suppose
> someone says
> 
> "Ben murder chicken pliers quu weapon"
> 
> This means that "Ben murders chickens using pliers as a weapon"
> 

Wouldn't you need:

  la Ben cu murder lo chicken lo pliers quu weapon

? Otherwise, it might be taken to mean "Ben is a murderous chicken
using pliers as a weapon" or "Ben is a murderously chickeny 
pliers-as-a-weapon" or "Lo! there's Ben type-of murderously chickeny 
pliers-as-aweapon!" or something else. (I'm not sure if names
can be recognized as sumti in Loglish even without {la}, or whether
"pliers quu weapon" can be taken as a sumti even without a gadri.  
You might also need to distinguish "chicken quu animal" from
"chicken quu coward".)

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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