Re: [lojban] Teaching methods, especially WRT terminators, and validation thereof

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

I know a natural language, namely Tok Pisin, which has a predicate marker, 
namely "i". Tok Pisin and the other Bislamic languages (which also have "i", 
though in Solomon Islands Pijin it's often found attached to "hem") are about 
two hundred years old and formed by creolization, which is kids adding 
grammar to a pidgin that didn't have a complete grammar. So it appears to me 
that a predicate marker is a kind of word that humans are predisposed to.

I don't know of any natural language that has a terminator for the article. 
Terminators are a part of speech peculiar to the Loglanic languages and are 
there to make the language syntactically unambiguous while being fully 
expressive.

So I think it's important to teach both "ku" and "cu" early and that there are 
constructions where they may be used but don't have to and others where they 
have to be there.

Pierre
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