Re: [lojban] A Simpler Connective System (blog article)

[And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com>]

On 25 September 2016 at 19:31, selpahi <seladwa@gmx.de> wrote:

"How does one say 'and' in Lojban?"
"Well... it depends, you know.  For sumti, it's {e}.  For tanru and sentences, it's {je}.  For bridi tails it's {gi'e}.  And those were just the afterthought connectives.  Forethought 'and' is {ge} for everything but tanru, which use {gu'e} instead.  Relative clauses are connected with {zi'e}."
"... oh."

With no less than six ways to say "and" as well as roughly the same number for each of the other logical functions (OR, IFF, WHETHER-OR-NOT) totaling 26, the Lojban connective system can be quite daunting. But despair not, for there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

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To read the full article follow this link:

https://solpahi.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/a-simpler-connective-system/

Having given the matter about .0001% of the thought you have, I wonder whether the gi'i terminator is optimal. Firstly it would not always be easy to work out on the fly when it is and isn't elidable, so the prudent strategy would be to leave it in except when certain it is elidable. Secondly, when it isn't elided it adds an extra word and two extra syllables. A better alternative would be to introduce medial conjuncts with _go_ rather than _gi_, and use _gi_ only for introducing final conjuncts: {ga JA A go B go C gi D}. (Or, one step neater, use _gu_ for medial conjuncts and _go_ for the tanru coordination introducer. Or _ge_.)

--And.

 

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