From ragnarok@pobox.com Wed Jan 30 17:18:21 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 31 Jan 2002 01:18:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 14175 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2002 01:18:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m4.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 31 Jan 2002 01:18:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.250) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Jan 2002 01:18:20 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.98] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id AB2A36F00D4; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:17:30 -0500 To: Subject: RE: [lojban] Bible translation style question Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:18:20 -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 In-Reply-To: <6c.1694b9b4.2988b5e7@aol.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" Reply-To: X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=48763382 X-Yahoo-Profile: kreig_daniyl >These sound like statistical groupings, not implicative connections. English is almost as "peculiar" as Lojban in this. Aside from the morphology, English is not peculiar. The order of adjective-noun is from Old English, which was SOV. And yes, they are statistical groupings. However, some of them have exact explanations given - eg, SOV langs tend to get cases so that the subject and object are more easily distinguished. > The percentages are only >signifcant if all the factors have equal weight, which I doubt (the positional factors are more likely associated than the morphophonology, say). They don't, the grammar really is more influenced.