From arosta@uclan.ac.uk Fri Dec 07 14:22:58 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rosta.work2home@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 7 Dec 2001 22:22:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 45745 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 22:22:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Dec 2001 22:22:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta06-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.46) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 22:22:58 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.42.227]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with SMTP id <20011207222256.OZLN3849.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:22:56 +0000 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: thoughts on numerical language Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:22:12 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 In-Reply-To: X-eGroups-From: "And Rosta (Work2Home)" From: "And Rosta (Work2Home)" Reply-To: X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810630 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin John: > 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? A negative appraisal that I attempted to couch in neutral terms. > > 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? Can you give more examples? --And.