On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Bob LeChevalier
<lojbab@lojban.org> wrote:
There aren't many Lojban words with more than 4 places, where there are, as with klama, the interrelationship of the places may help to keep them in mind destination-origin-route all go together, so when saying a Lojban bridi based on klama with all 5 places expressed, in my experience actually speaking the language, places 2-3-4 tend to unify mentally (and I have used all 5 places of klama in speech, though x5 tends to be obvious most of the time and doesn't need to be spoken). I think other verbs of motion that parallel klama work the same way.
I have always been confused by this ordering of klama's arguments. Mentioning the end-point before the start-point just seems backwards to me.
stevo