Re: [lojban] SAE was lojban and PR

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

On Thursday 27 October 2011 22:23:52 John E Clifford wrote:
> Errh.  The Wikipedia page for what, exactly?  That is, what is the list
> for? Surely not SAE, since many such languages lack properties here checked
> and have those left unchecked (I take 'x' as a "no").  Are the checks for
> Lojban?  And what do these things mean (especially "A, B, and C")? 
> Morphosyntactic alignment?  I just see the relevance here.  Look at Whorf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European
"A, B, and C" is contrasted with "A and B and C", which is the construction in 
Lojban. SAE languages have most of these properties, but not necessarily all. 
English lacks the dative external possessor, but both French and Spanish have 
it (including when the possessor is the same as the subject, e.g. "je me lave 
les mains"). English also, unlike German, French, and Spanish, uses the 
reflexive also as an intensifier.

Pierre

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