From ragnarok@pobox.com Mon Jan 28 05:35:00 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 28 Jan 2002 13:35:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 96148 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2002 13:34:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Jan 2002 13:34:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2002 13:34:57 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.98] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A344B0038; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:33:56 -0500 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Bible translation style question Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:35:02 -0500 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 V5.00.2314.1300 In-Reply-To: X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" Reply-To: X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl > In addition, any normative style is going to >be strongly SAE-influenced at this stage, which is to'e lojbo. Lojban is already quite SAE. There is no way that you are going to tell me that it is oligosynthetic, which if I understand Whorf right is the other alternative. Furthermore, it distinguishes past, present, and future tenses (as opposed to Hopi, for example, which has past+present material things versus future+present immaterial things) --la kreig.daniyl. '.i do cu vanci le ba panje xusra .i denci gunma le se gidva' xy.sy. gubmau ckiku nacycme: 0x5C3A1E74