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[lojban] On the 2/3 flood
From: Pycyn@aol.com
Yes, za'o is for any event (process, state, activity, achievement[?!]) that
is still around after its time is up: cf. english keep on, still, and the
like -- mild annoyance is appropriate in many cases.
hakamaro'o goes into *my* English as of today (if I can remember it). It is
the best thing from another language since Maori gave us that expression
(which I did forget, fo course) meaning "the whirr of words" to explain the
value of an art work. Pascuan is Easter Islander?
Whorfian effects are supposed to be deeply metaphysical reperceptions, not
relatively surface connections that go unnotice otherwise -- the squash-melon
(-cucumber, by the way) connection is a specimen, as is noting the
similarlities between two colors when you learn a language that divides up
the color spindle differently. Whorf's favorite was always seeing SAE
substances as Hopi processes (though the best process people were Buddhists
writing very SAE Sanskrit (well, Pali) -- but then then were by definition
people who had overcome acculturation.
le: remember that the a/the transition in English at the beginning of stories
can be viewed -- and is by languages which don't use articles -- as a very
superficial ornamentation of no logical significance. We anglophones tend to
see it as existential quantifier (except that no real instance is expected)
and a special sort of instantiation that carries its introduction phrase with
it (I to Y superalternation). Since the function of LE is first and foremost
to mark off terms from predicates and only secondarily to say something about
the nature of the term referent, starting stories with le seems entirely apt
-- it w=is the one you are interested in, after all.
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