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Re: [lojban] Mini-rant: mutce and traji must die.
See, I *like* {x1 is bluer than x2}. *That* is a good use of place
structure; it gives you immediate access to extra meaning you might
actually want with no extra syllables.
-Robin
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 03:08:38PM -0800, John E Clifford wrote:
> Back in the day, most basic adjectives were inherently comparative: {blanu} was
> officially "x1 is bluer than x2" (with maybe a few more places -- this is a
> Loglan word here, btw). This always raised the question, when you wanted to use
> the merely attributive sense, "What is it bluer than when it is simply blue" and
> the answer always was (though no one ever seemed to like) "the
> standard/average/typical/.... one of what ever x1 is relevantly at the moment",
> roughly "blue for a ...". I was usually elided in the "you know what I mean"
> way, though the opponents always treated it as a "something" elision. (Using
> basic comparatives makes a couple of moves in semantics a lot easier, which is
> why it was used. I miss it)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: .arpis. <rpglover64+jbobau@gmail.com>
> To: lojban@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Fri, December 16, 2011 2:36:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [lojban] Mini-rant: mutce and traji must die.
>
> One of the things I really like about lojban (in the abstract, not necessarily
> in practice) is that selbri have places which make explicit certain things which
> are completely implicit in other languages; one example: {rajycla} has a "by
> standard" place (inherited from {clani}), which makes it clear that the
> "standard of tallness" matters in any discussion of height, and requires a
> different selbri ({rajycla be zi'o}) to ignore it.
>
> It seems to me that spoken lojban will (almost) never use more than three
> places, common written lojban will behave similarly, and technical or pedantic
> lojban will have some words (depending on context) which use more places.
>
> {.ua ro di'u na'e se ganzu}
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:12:43PM -0600, vitci'i wrote:
> >> On 12/16/2011 01:31 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >> > These places must die!
> >>
> >> I'm kind of curious to see how far this can be taken. What would
> >> happen if, even in gismu, we forbade any place that can be
> >> replaced by a modal?
> >
> >Can those places be replaced by a modal? Which one?
> >
> >I have, fwiw, considered that posibility in my head as well. I
> >think that's too much of some-other-language-that-isn't-Lojban.
> >
> >
> >> Consider {cusku}.
> >>
> >> x1 (agent) expresses/says x2 (sedu'u/text/lu'e concept) for
> >> audience x3 via expressive medium x4.
> >>
> >> cusku1 is covered by {gau}, and cusku3 is covered by {ri'i}.
> >> cusku4 is covered by {xebe'i}. Though I'm stretching a bit, cusku2
> >> could be covered by {fi'o jufra}, leaving us with a zero-place
> >> gismu.
> >
> >*snrk*
> >
> >
> >> I am vaguely imagining a language centered around modals rather
> >> than predicates, with selbri being created implicitly and nonce by
> >> the lists of their places. I'm not sure that this is different
> >> from all gismu having exactly one place.
> >
> >Yeah, as I say, I've pondered that as well as a thought experiment,
> >but it's a different language. Probably a much more verbose one.
> >
> >
> >-Robin
> >
> >--
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