Re: [lojban] Should I quit learning Lojban?

[la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, April 27, 2013 2:06:27 AM UTC+4, xorxes wrote:

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:49 AM, la gleki <gleki.is...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Friday, April 26, 2013 5:49:01 AM UTC+4, clifford wrote:

No, the only elements of the second sort of languages are properties, which overlap [the wrong word here, but I can't remember the right one] or not in varying degrees (sorry, they changed the rules on relative clauses on me between high school and now).  So the classic Logic 1 sentence would be "Mortality humanity" with maybe some minor hook in there (but I don't know any such languages so don't quite know how it goes). 

Can you provide a link to any descriptions of such languages with examples with glosses? Because the only example "Mortality humanity" makes no sense.

How are two words connected to each other? Like in tanru? Then it's just {submorsi subremna}.

 

There's one language I know of that fits that description: the language of the northern hemisphere of Tlön. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius or read the full story here: http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/0066/borges.pdf

Damn it. It has been in my bookmarks for years. Anyway "it mooned" is just {ca'o lunra} because obviously {lunra} is a verb. And I can't see much difference from "it was the dog all o'er the road" from the Wave lessons.

 

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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