[lojban] Re: LA/LO/LE: Three Perspectives on Language

[Roman Naumann <eldrikdo@gmail.com>]

On Monday 01 September 2008 06:53:49 Brett Williams wrote:
> LA
>
>      LA is the easiest gadri to explain and to use.  LA isolates one of the
> most fundamental properties of language: That an arbitrary sound can
> indicate an arbitrary referent in the world.  With LA we have complete
> freedom to use this power of language.  We can name anything any name, even
> if the thing is already named or the name is already taken.  From the
> perspective of LA, words are just sounds, which anyone can attach freely to
> anything.  With LA, we are each Adam.

Your boxes explanation for lo/le seems handy to me.
LA being but a sound-thing connective, however, confuses
me as until now I assumed {la cribe} for instance would (in translation)
be the one 'named bear', not the one 'named cribe'.
(l4b stated that IIRC)

That would be not just a sound-thing connection,
but a (sound)-meaning-thing connection.

la cribe
[The one who is called by the word meaning bear]
[The one called bear]

-- 

mu'o mi'e ki'a



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