From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jun 11 11:59:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 11 Jun 2001 18:59:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 13810 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2001 18:58:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 11 Jun 2001 18:58:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta2 with SMTP; 11 Jun 2001 18:58:34 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 159WtU-0003HK-00 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:58:32 -0700 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 11:58:32 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] selma'o Message-ID: <20010611115832.P2481@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 02:53:54AM +0000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la kreig cusku di'e > > > Why do we need selma'o? I've been learning better by ignoring them, > > How do you manage to write any grammatical sentence by ignoring > selma'o? Trivially. > Words in a given selma'o are all the words that can occupy a given > position in a sentence. I have categories in my head, not selma'o. 'Modals' or 'sumti tcica' is one category, frex, but I don't think of them as 'members of BAI'. > >They probably wouldn't even learn them! They don't seem to serve any > >real purpose, either. Is there something I'm missing, or was it just > >"Hey, let's put the cmavo in these groups we don't need for no > >reason!" > > It would be great if you can learn Lojban just from imitation, > ignoring what selma'o are for, and still use the language correctly, > it would show that the language is quite robust. I've never used them, and I seem to be doing all right. 8) -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/