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[lojban] Re: LA/LO/LE: Three Perspectives on Language
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- Subject: [lojban] Re: LA/LO/LE: Three Perspectives on Language
- From: "Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 10:23:12 -0500
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:14, Roman Naumann <eldrikdo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Well, in the same way American Indian names are often translated into
English semantically instead of phonetically, words used with "la" are
likewise. But if the "la" word isn't something with any particular
semantic meaning on its own, or if the person translating felt like
it, it would be translated phonetically (i.e. transliterated). Whereas
something used with "le" or "lo" would always need to be translated
semantically.
Chris Capel
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