Re: [lojban] x1 to the left

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Timo Paulssen
<timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:
> On 11/12/2010 09:35 PM, Frank wrote:
>> On 12 November 2010 13:59, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> (i.e., in modern lojban "broda" would have equalled "ko broda").
>>> It's just a design choice.
>>>
>>> --gejyspa
>>
>>
>> However, in lojban, does not the absence of an argument to a selbri
>> simply mean that argument is unspecified? […]
>>
>> mi'e xuinkrbin.
>
> That's right. gejyspa just didn't want to use Loglan words, because many
> people here probably don't know them. What he meant was: If Lojban now
> was the way Loglan was back then, {broda} would equal what we now know
> as {ko broda}.
>
> mu'o mi'e timos
>
  Yes, hence the "would have" (subjunctive (approx. = va'o da'i lo
nu...))  On the other hand, timos, there are plenty of Loglan words
lojbanists know -- bisli, rismi, vamtu, blanu (although blanu had an
x2 place back in Loglandia  (x1 is bluer than x2))
              --gejyspa

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