Re: Comparison: Loglan / Lojban ?

["Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU>]

>Date:         Wed, 27 Aug 1997 09:38:33 -0600
>From: Mark Vines <vinesm@wholefoods.com>
>
>coi doi lobypli
>
>Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET> said:
>
>> predicates.  An example of this is the distinction between
>> "The food is done" vs. "The preparation of the food is done".
>> Lojban requires that the former be marked because "the food"
>> is "raised" from the abstraction "the preparation of the
>> food".  TLI Loglan has no way to mark this.  The result is
>> semantically very muddy.
>
>Mark Vines responds:
>
>How should sumti raising be marked in Lojban?  I doubt that
>I am doing this correctly.

It's why God created {tu'a}.  Arise, sumti, and be free!  I think there are
good explanations of this out there already.

~mark