RE: RE: Re[2]: [lojban] Dr. James Cooke Brown

["And Rosta" <a.rosta@pmail.net>]

From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@pmail.net>

From: Vjacxeslav' Ivanov'
> ..
> > choosing some appropriate lexical indicator at the start of the text
> > one could indicate whether one were writing Loglan in classical or Lojban
> > mode. A stage beyond that would be to define word-for-word equivalences
> > between the Lojban and classical Loglan lexicons.
> 
> Can such equivalents be found, if the classical and lojban grammars 
> have differences, as I understand? The idea is rather interesting. 
> For example, I can start my speeches by smth. like "Hue Slavik ja 
> lentaa la Loglan" :)) Or we shall invent a "little word" for this... 
> Though in Loglan most l-initial little words are already "articles".

I had in mind the Little Word route. John Cowan has suggested Loglan
"hoa" and Lojban "xo'a". I imagine that it would necessitate a small and
manageable grammar change to allow these words at the start of a
text. A next stage might be to allow them anywhere in a text, perhaps
with a kind of toggling function, so that "xo'a" would toggle from
Lojban to classical Loglan, and "hoa" from classical Loglan to
Lojban. I'm fairly sure an appropriate word-class must already exist 
for these words. I suppose it would take more to achieve full 
equivalence between the grammars, and at this stage I am just
hoping for some mechanism that unites us all into working collectively
in a common enterprise towards a common goal, rather than working
separately in parallel, even if there is goodwill on both sides.

The result might be a bit like the Euro, in that when you pay for stuff in
cash you pay in francs, guilders, deutschmarks, etc., but these are
just local instantiations of the common currency. 

--And.

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