On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:32 AM, la arxokuna
<gleki.is...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Friday, May 31, 2013 1:49:37 PM UTC+4, lojbab wrote:
la arxokuna wrote:
> Yes, and relative clauses are adjectives.
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> No.
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> A cat which is black = black cat
Semantically, they are often similar, but not necessarily identical, as
is more evident if you try to reverse the identity. A black cat may
also be a cat which has a black collar contrasted with one that has a
white collar, for example, or any of a number of other plausible
relations associating the aformentioned cat with some sort of blackness.
I have a cat that most would call a "black cat", but in fact is xekri
joi blabi
> All SAE languages have adverbs. Lojban is no exception.
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> Lojban is not an SAE language.
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> Lojban must optionally work as a SAE language. Otherwise it's alien and
> not usable by SAE-speakers.
Lojban is alien in several senses.
I have to presume that you are using SAE as it is commonly understood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European
It would be interesting to see how many of the listed features actually
apply to Lojban.
I did a part of it three weeks ago.
I'm going to get rid of all the ones that aren't actually a part of Lojban. This includes "optionally possible" ones, since by definition that means it isn't part of it. It's optionally possible for me to be physically a woman.
- no productive usage of reduplication; [yes, not used]
- word order subject–verb–object; [yes, by default]
- specific "neither-nor" construction; [not very specific, a part of a neat conjunctive system in Lojban]