RE: [lojban] Re: thoughts on numerical language

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>anyway, i was saying you can just represent it as "A gives B", with
>side tag "with recipient".  Or "A gives to B", with side
>tag "involving object".  English is pretty much binary, with
>prepositional side tags.  It just turns out the 5 tags in lojban
>makes things convenient and quick.

One of the first things I did to make Lojban feel less alien was think of
English as having a lot of one and two place selbri (verbs). All other
places are added modally. Lojban just happens to have some selbri with more
places, but it really doesn't need to. It just makes it more succinct -
though with your not worrying about pronounceability that can easily come
from other places.

                             --la kreig.daniyl.

     '.i do cu vanci le ba panje xusra
     .i denci gunma le se gidva'

xy.sy. gubmau ckiku nacycme:  0x5C3A1E74