Re: [lojban] tertirxu

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Jim Carter wrote:

> I was disappointed when
> Lojban drifted off in the direction of custom-crafting each predicate's
> definition according to which arguments are most important to it.

The Lojban theory of gismu place assignment is explained, as well as
I can, at http://www.lojban.org/files/reference-grammar/chap12.html#s16 .

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas.               -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"