Subject: RE: [lojban] Re: thoughts on numerical language

From: "And Rosta (Work2Home)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:22:12 -0000

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.