... Agree, tho 'typical' might be in wider use than we think at first. Just about any "Go pipyar" sentence would call for it, as I see it. Let's call it...
I'll tell how I have the articles organized in Minyeva, maybe it might be helpful. I have five articles: te, da, ki, sao, and cai. - te: the X previously...
... For me, ki (or tuya) fits in those three examples, but for 'a swede' I see a different meaning. You don't mean a typical, or representative Swede here, do...
What we're discussing here is degrees of definite knowledge about the referenced object on the part of the speaker and the listener. "te": speaker knows,...
... Now I'm getting confused. From what he wrote here: The meaning of "ki" is translated very idiomatically in English: sometimes with "the", other times with...
... I don't either. Seems useful when saying '_the_ John Jones' but not really more than that. Offhand. I'd say let's use 'to' for the sun, the president,...
... To me they just call for anything defined as tigers. For example, when you study tigers, you don't study a single typical ideal tiger, unless you're a ...
... I see them more as specification, uniqueness, and previous introduction instead of knowing. Thus, it would look like this: "te": previously introduced;...
Before we go any further, we all should look at the equivalent words in Loglan at http://www.loglan.org/Loglan1/index.html -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon...
Are there even equivalent words to articles in Loglan/lojban? The languages have the articles "le" and "lo", but those articles concern different aspects of...
... words in ... It was fun to look at that again. I bought my copy in 1975. Loglan has the name marker "la", the definite article "le", and the mass-predicate...
... omitting ... the "lopu", "lopo", etc are just compound terms - combinations of "lo" + "pu", "lo" + "po", etc. So, you basically still just have le & lo,...
... Or: 3. people add words they need => you have a living language. Ceqli has a solid architecture, and a morphology that isn't hard to understand. I think...
... Well, I was talking about the syntax and functional words. You can't change that under people, because then they have to relearn how to use the language....
... would ... Or : 3. the people who speak it start changing it => you have a vibrant language that meets a linguistic need. I'm hoping Ceqli can have a solid...
How useful does everybody think the Loglan words are? I started out with the notion that to should be equivalent to loglan le, ti to la, and te simply a noun...
... Ooops-- Sorry about the quasi-duplicate post. The later one was actually written earlier but I thought I hadn't sent it, so long was the delay in its...
... out with ... te ... also ... There's something vaguely unaesthetic about the mass description particle "lo", but J.C. Browne thought it was important to...
... The Lojban explanation of 'lo' might be more useful: http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less4articles.ht ml -- Rex F. May (Baloo) ...
... This all sounds very good to me. My only doubt is about 'tu,' and only because I can't quite figure out how often it would be called for. Reading more of...
... only ... develop. ... It's got quiet here..... Do we have something that'll work for articles? Are we ready for the next thing? What's the next thing? :-)...
... I think so. Look at the site: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/gramintro.html which way would YOU like to go next? -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon at: ...
I'm thinking of allowing the combinations: ia, ie, iu, io in morphemes of the shape nCVV, all to be pronounced as two syllables with the accent on the "i"....
For connectives I want all the logic and versatility of Loglan, but of course they can't be in the shape V. Rather than try to ape the rather elegant simple...
... of ... rather ... I reread my Loglan discussion of "noa". Several times. I'm hanging on by a thread of comprehension, but I'm okay with "bukaw" and ...
... Exactly. So, I figure, why not prohibit those and go with ia, etc.? -- Rex F. May (Baloo) Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp Buy...
... In Lojban, that's "onai". (And I presume in Loglan it's o + Loglan's post-negation word. onoi?) "Exclusive or" is just "if and only if" with one side...
... Thread of comprehension. Couldn't have put it better myself. ... I'm thinking of stuff like. Go pa kom fukay ho dorm. I ate, then went to sleep. Go pa xaw...
... It is? Okay. I'll check for that. That's the sort of thing I understand when it's first explained and then I forget. Yep, You're right. It's 'onoi',...
