Subject: RE: [lojban] termsets

From: "And Rosta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 18:24:29 +0100

xorxes:
> Termsets group things differently:
> 
> nu'i ge abuboi cy gi by.boi dy prami
> {A C} and {B D} love.
> 
> A more natural example in English would be:
> 
> A gives {B to C} and {D to F}.
> abu dunda nu'ige by boi cy gi dy boi fy
> 
> Each term in a termset fills a different place.
> Does the fact that not even John Cowan can get this straight
> prove that termsets are unusable and should be avoided?

I don't think so. This sort of coordination is very normal
and unmarked in English. It's a shame that GA is not
already equivalent to "nu'i GA" (so that all coordination
is termset coordination), but the result is just averagely 
lojbanically clunky, and not downright unusable.

--And.