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Re: [lojban] Active-stative?
Am 12.04.2010 um 03:51 schrieb Robert LeChevalier:
Nothing is stopping anyone from coining a fu'ivla corresponding to a
Basque word, and giving it only an x2, or making unusual with the
semantics of multiple sumti. When ages ago, I was proposing the use
of Lojban as an auxiliary metalanguage for expressing linguistic
examples in a neutral way, those were the sorts of things I
indicated were possible. Lojban's bells and whistles allow the
mimicking of almost anything in a form which communicates more
information, more unambiguously, than the typical linguistic example
expressed in English translation (like the Basque example in this
thread).
E.g. the Nootka verb/sentence: "inikwihl'minik'isit" which can be
translated into English as "Several small fires were burning in the
house".
Following the English syntax this Nootka sentence could be translated
into Lojban ("so'i cmalu fagri puca'o jelca ne'i le zdani")
or rendered similarly to the Nootka way
("zdane'ikemcmafagyso'ikemprununjelca")
or even exactly according to the Nootka syntax as
"fagykemyzdanerso'icmapru".
(I apologize if there are mistakes, due to my Lojban gotten rusty with
many years :( )
This wonderful Lojban flexibility is based on its rafsi system.
co'o mi'e .aulun.
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