Re: [lojban] Introduction to Lojban. How to quickly create sentences

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

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:

On Sunday, February 02, 2014 09:54:13 Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> But many English words that we know as "nouns" are not nouns.
>
> "A traveller to London is crazy." = {lo litru be la .lyndyn. cu fenki}
> Isn't "traveller" a noun?

It's a noun derived from a verb.

So what ...? This is exactly like Lojban works {litru} => {lo litru}. Exclusions are pronouns (KOhA) which are not derived from verbs.

In English, a prepositional phrase can modify
a verb, noun, or adjective. You can say "I travel the Tube", but "A traveller
the Tube is crazy" is ungrammatical.

Of course. One of the meaning of English "of" is like of Lojbanic {be}.

> The point of this course to make others feel Lojban is an easy language
> close to English (and other similar languages like French, Russian,
> German). That's why any alien terminology and even constructs are to be
> removed.

Lojban isn't an Indo-European language.

I'm not saying it. The purpose of the course is to present it in an understandable style, not to turn it into an Indo-European language.

 

When learning Hebrew, one encounters
alien terminology, such as "lamed he verb" and "hishtaph`el", which describe
features peculiar to Semitic languages. Some common verbs, such as "`asah" (to
make), are lamed he verbs, so you can't avoid them.

The concept presented in this course is not suitable for Semitic languages. E.g. I'm not mentioning iḍāfa although for Arabic speakers one might consider using this term.

 

> For Japanese speakers there should be a separate introduction probably with
> topic-comment style.

lo xanto zo'u lo nazbi cu clani

i ma nabmi i li'a na smuni satci i ku'i mi jimpe lo du'u makau smuni

mu'omi'e .pier.
--
gau do li'i co'e kei do

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