[lojban] Re: E-Prime & Lojban

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

sometimes when I'm figuring out how to say what I want to say in my head I'll throw in an unnecessary {cu} because it sounds right due to an english {is}.

That E-Prime thing looks interesting.  But it seems like there would be some things in english that you simply couldn't say without using a "to be" form of verb.  

How would you say "I'm here", for instance?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:09 AM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:

What do you think of E-Prime?

Does the practice of Lojban discourage uses of "to be" in English? We
seem to frequent the form of "lo skina cu pluka" more than the form of
"lo skina cu me lo pluka", in which "me" may roughly correspond to the
English copula "be", as in "the movie is good". Could this mean that
Lojban has some bearings on the discipline of E-Prime?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

mu'o jundi mi'e tijlan


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