From pycyn@aol.com Tue Jan 29 01:32:32 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 29 Jan 2002 09:32:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 64410 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2002 09:32:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Jan 2002 09:32:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d01.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.33) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jan 2002 09:32:32 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.26.) id r.dc.1243a659 (4542) for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 04:32:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 04:32:25 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Bible translation style question To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_dc.1243a659.2987c629_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 118 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2455001 X-Yahoo-Profile: kaliputra --part1_dc.1243a659.2987c629_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/28/2002 5:59:47 PM Central Standard Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes: > I use SOV whenever it would be as clear as the SVO (there are times when it > wouldn't, but they are not all that frequent) > Interesting, I was aware of it as a regular pattern in use only from people with Romance language backgrounds (you don't have one, do you?) where it is a norm with pronouns at least. Interesting. Details, please. Moght this say something about what is natural Lojban style? (Assuming we don't want to do something just because no other language does.) --part1_dc.1243a659.2987c629_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/28/2002 5:59:47 PM Central Standard Time, ragnarok@pobox.com writes:


I use SOV whenever it would be as clear as the SVO (there are times when it
wouldn't, but they are not all that frequent)


Interesting, I was aware of it as a regular pattern in use only from people with Romance language backgrounds (you don't have one, do you?) where it is a norm with pronouns at least.

<I have been reading about 'implicational universals' among
languages, and Lojban is similar to both SVO and SOV languages in other
aspects, but slightly closer to SVO.>

Interesting.  Details, please.  Moght this say something about what is natural Lojban style? (Assuming we don't want to do something just because no other language does.)

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