Re: [lojban] Essay on the future of Lojban, with a simple poll for the community.

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
>
> But when I compared Lojban to a list of universals, I found only one clear
> violation (and a lot of n/a's): in a phrase like "these three blue houses",
> if all three modifiers are on the same side of the head word, the number is
> in the middle of the three. The Lojban is "ci vi blanu zdani", and the word
> for "these" is a spatial tense.

"ci (lo) vi blanu zdani" is "three of these blue houses", so in the
same order as in English.

"these three blue houses" is closer to "lo ci vi blanu zdani", and
it's hard to say whether it is "lo" or "vi" that contributes the most
to the meaning of "these". The definiteness does not come from "vi" in
any case, only the proximity.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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