Subject: Re: thoughts on numerical language

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 23:46:06 -0000

--- In lojban@y..., "Adam Raizen" <araizen@n...> wrote:
> la tinkit cusku di'e
> 
> > Not 
> > having to be short and tidy, I found it easier to assume a 2 
> > argument system with extra tags.
> How do you do the equivalent of 'dunda'?
> 
> mu'o mi'e .adam.

Oops, sent it to the e-mail again...

anyway, i was saying you can just represent it as "A gives B", with 
side tag "with recipient". Or "A gives to B", with side 
tag "involving object". English is pretty much binary, with 
prepositional side tags. It just turns out the 5 tags in lojban 
makes things convenient and quick.