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Re: [lojban] Lojban wall of complexity (beginner thoughts)



Le vendredi 27 juillet 2012 04:03:33 UTC+2, Pierre Abbat a écrit :

It's still there, for any francophone lojbanist to send messages to other
francophone lojbanists. The last message (ignoring the monthly reminders,
which on my computer get filtered somewhere else) was sent by Robin in
English to the announce list, which forwards to several other lists.

Ok, I'll definitely subscribe.
 
You could look up the word in an English dictionary, or a Hungarian
dictionary, or a Russian dictionary and find what you want. If you looked it
up in a Tzutujil or Seri or Navajo dictionary, you would probably come up
empty.

This is a great example. And in these last languages I'd start to build some new word, from other words of the language or by borrowing foreign words or maybe another mechanisms.
And in lojban we have exactly the first 2 mechanisms, lujvo and fu'ivla. Understood.
 
The definition of "klesi" (x1 is a class[...] within x2 with defining property
x3) doesn't fit the computer definition of "class" at all. A CS class is a
type (variables of the type can be created) with some associated methods
(functions) and members (like a structure, not a set). The reason I
highlighted the methods is that without them, a class is just a struct
(although in C++, a struct is just a class with the default being public). An
example of a klesi is the set of languages in which the subject usually
precedes the verb.

I think I've understood, klesi is a class/category etc. defined by a predicate (klesi3), not by an enumeration of its content.
 

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