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Re: [lojban] Suggestion for a new animacy marker in Lojban.
Le samedi 4 août 2012 10:01:16 UTC+2, aionys a écrit :
The less arbitrary distinctions there are, the better. And merely by the simple fact that every language splits things differently, (although I'll grant that language families tend to be tcesimsa if not mintu,) is enough evidence for me at least that it is arbitrary.
I know that is human nature to classify things. We do it all the time. But not all classifications are useful or necessary.
ni'o ti'e lo pe'a catni trusi'o befi la lobgu'e ku lei clira kakpa zo'u bau la lojban. cusku be ji'i ro da zifre gi'e cusku be ji'i no da bilga .i sidbo lo du'u ta'u nai kulnu nutli¹ .i go'i lo du'u ta'u nai terzasti naldukse²
ni'o ja'o ru'e bilga lo du'u tu'a lo si'o zo'e zukte ja nalzukte kei ka'e frili se cusku bau ly. kei le bi'u nai trusi'o pe'a (to .i zu'u nai na'e mukti lonu ba'e mi cusku toi)
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¹ cultural neutrality?
² metaphysical parsimony?
What I am trying to say is that I think that, according to what I perceive to be Lojban's ideology, there should be a relatively easy way to make the animacy/inanimacy distinction (which I, by the way, feel no inclination of making).
mu'o mi'e .iesk.
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