Re: [lojban] JAI/BO was: Attitudinal scales

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 14 May 2010 15:55:50 Daniel Brockman wrote:
> The {jai BAI} syntax is even easier: it just switches the BAI place into
> x1:
>
>     i lo glico cu jai bau casnu la lojban
>     = i bau lo glico cu casnu la lojban
>     English is the language of discussion about Lojban.
>
> The original x1 ends up in the place tagged by {fai}:
>
>     i lo glico cu jai bau casnu la lojban fai mi'o
>     English is the language in which we discuss Lojban.

{jai} is similar to the passive, with {fai} corresponding to "by":
*In English is discussed Lojban by us.
English has a dative-passive (which in Lojban is {te}, using {dunda} as the 
selbri, and doesn't use {fai}), but no language-passive, so the above 
sentence sounds weird in English.

Pierre

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