Re: [lojban] Re: x1 to the left

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

haha, I do speak lojbanically; as often as I can.  It's mostly the nit-picky theory-oriented side of me that's irked by the fact that all the sumti slots of a selbri are same except in this one way.  You use fa to move around to the slots or se to swap them around, all of this you do the same way for all of them.  They all live by the same rules.... except this one.

It's like "all dogs go to heaven... except for poodles... because it's convenient and therefore desirable".

It also seems somewhat biased against verb-object-subject and verb-subject-object types of languages.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Lindar <lindarthebard@yahoo.com> wrote:

My two cents:

It's a feature, and a rather useful one. Very often the x1 is omitted
to make it a more observation-like phrasing. Speak Lojbanically and
you'll see why we have it set up that way. =P

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