From a.rosta@ntlworld.com Sun Jan 27 17:55:37 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: a.rosta@ntlworld.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 28 Jan 2002 01:55:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 69185 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2002 01:55:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Jan 2002 01:55:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta03-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.43) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2002 01:55:36 -0000 Received: from andrew ([62.255.40.74]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020128015535.LHKK26285.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@andrew> for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:55:35 +0000 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Bible translation style question Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:54:52 -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 In-Reply-To: <0201270348372A.30016@neofelis> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 From: "And Rosta" X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=77248971 X-Yahoo-Profile: andjamin pierre: > Adam puts x1 before the brivla, but puts the x3 of a verb of saying (the > listener) before x2 (the quotation): > > I put the sumti in their specified order unless for some reason such as > emphasis, order of quantification, or combining bridi they have to be > rearranged: > > Mark puts the Lojban words in an order as close as possible to the Hebrew: > > I figure that the selbri are in the order they are in for a reason, and > putting two or more FA tags (except in omission - I prefer two FAs to two > zo'es) or two or more SE conversions sounds unnatural. What do you think? I think that by encouraging the development of a normative style you are inhibiting future generations of Lojban users from making full use of Lojban's resources. In addition, any normative style is going to be strongly SAE-influenced at this stage, which is to'e lojbo. --And.