Re: [lojban] x1 to the left

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

2010/11/12 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>   Back in the olden days of Loglan, something without
> an argument to the left was considered to be a command, just like
> English, (i.e., in modern lojban "broda" would have equalled "ko
> broda").  It's just a design choice.

Yes, I think that's the reason. Since commands were marked by the
absence of x1, for "dunda ta mi" to mean "give that to me" the
arguments to the right had to start from x2.

The other justification I heard is that you usually want ko'a in "lo
broda be ko'a", or in "da poi broda ko'a" to fall in the x2 place.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

Considering what gadri do, it seems perfectly sensible to me.


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.i.a'o.e'e ko cmima le bende pe lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o
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