[lojban] Re: Translations For Penguicon Lojban Festival

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 10 April 2009 19:58:29 Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:19:11PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
> > Lojbanists from all over the country will speak about, and sometimes
> > in, a language based on predicate nominative logic systems which
> > Heinlein borrowed for "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress." Lojban is one of
> > the most well-developed artificial languages in existence today.
>
> What does "predicate nominative" mean?

Should be just "predicate logic". A predicate nominative is a word in the 
nominative case used in the tail of a predicate, as in "it is I".

Pierre


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