From cowan@ccil.org Tue Dec 04 13:39:50 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 4 Dec 2001 21:39:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 98702 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2001 21:39:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 4 Dec 2001 21:39:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2001 21:39:49 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16BNIB-0000Ai-00 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2001 16:39:55 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: thoughts on numerical language In-Reply-To: from And Rosta at "Dec 4, 2001 02:01:17 pm" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:39:55 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan And Rosta scripsit: > There was once a Loglan reform project > called Voksigid whose guiding idea (which then gives you an idea of > the calibre of the project) Is this praise, condemnation, or a mere neutral remark where "calibre" = flavor? > was to dispense with sumti marked by > word order and FA tags and to use only BAI tags. A particularly nice feature was that sumti were expressed by root-tag compounds, so that the selfsame tags had two uses: as tags, they indicated the case (loosely stated) of the sumti in its bridi; as suffixes, they indicated the derivation of the sumti from an underlying selbri root. I particularly cherish the word "homotor", which combine the root "homo" (prenu) with the suffix "-tor", agency. "The agent in the event of someone's being a person". Just who is that? -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan