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Re: [lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Let's do something like this for Lojban!



coi rodo

.i lo ti se mrilu ku pamoi se mrilu mi lo jbomriste
(this is the first mail I send to the list)

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 08:47:31AM -0300, Felipe Gonçalves Assis wrote:
> The ko'a-series is a whole different thing. Its single rule of
> reference is assignment.
> The only parallel to that in the English language is the "henceforth
> referred to as"
> of legal documents, which does not include personal pronouns at all.
>
> So, while the CLL does comment that the ko'a-series is the lojban version of 3rd
> person pronouns, this is pretty insensitive to how natural languages work.

As far as I know, there is one natural example of the ko'a-series in Sign Language [0].
This is called "referent locus system". The speaker can assign referents to points
in space.

mu'o mi'e van

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[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language_grammar#Referent_locus_system

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