LFB teaches the {padjed} = Monday system of day naming, but remarks that this clashed with the usage at the time. What's the current status on this? Chris...
... Hmm. I hope we don't end up like Chinese, which has three separate systems for naming weekdays (that differ in register). What are those lujvo based on? ...
... Monday is always the first day, Tuesday the second, etc. It is optional whether Sunday is day 7 or day 0. As Jorge was saying, the actual words for the...
... So Monday = 0 has died out, then? Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What...
... There are basically two systems used across languages: planetary and numerical. Numerical would be the natural choice for Lojban if there was agreement as...
... I half guessed it was planetary-based, but then all the first parts of the lujvo weren't actually planets. Where does the association between materials and...
... Yes, which in turn apparently comes from Chinese. We don't have gismu for the planets, but it would make sense to use the same system there: fagyplini -...
I'm rewriting LFB ch 4.2[1] to assume the acceptance of the BPFK gadri section[2] as it currently stands. I think this will make the section much, much...
... OT: I heard that that meeting wasn't quorate, so technically the decisions of that meeting don't count. We need Pluto so we can have a 10th planet ...
So I've been reading some old arguments on this list (from 2001-9) over detri, pi'e, etc. And I find myself in a position of writing material that, practically...
... I suggest teaching two systems for months and weekdays, and {tu'omoi nanca} for years ({nanca} can be omitted if it's obvious). For months, {pavma'i} and ...
Michal, Lojban has about 7,000 words, making it one of the largest artificial languages by far. However, it does not have a lot of specialist jargon. English...
... The statement "lo ci gerku means 'any/some of three dogs'" doesn't sound very accurate to me. There is no 'any/some of' in the Lojban phrase, nor any 'all'...
... I got "any/some" straight from the definition of lo in the BPFK proposal: "The resulting expression refers generically to *any or some* individual or...
... It seems like in this case it might help to think about the phrase: "re lo ci gerku" Two of the three dogs. There are two different places, here both of ...
... More or less. But consider: ro lo nixli cu ponse re lo gerku .i ro lo gerku cu xekri Each girl owns two dogs. All the dogs are black. la djan na ponse re...
... But that's not the same thing. {la djan} may refer to the writer of CLL, but it does not mean "the writer of CLL". In the BPFK definition the English words...
... Okay, maybe now I'm confused. Why is the last sentence not "ro _le_ gerku cu xekri"? What is thte difference in implication? Can "le" perhaps mean that...
... Very little, as far as I can see. It would be slightly odd to use {le} in the second sentence and {lo} in the first one though, if {lo gerku} has the same...
In English, there is a subtle, and grammatically confusing, distinction between the sentences "John is a potential student", which means that John might become...
... The first one could also be {la djan nu'o tadni}, and the second one {ju'o cu'i la djan cu tadni}. In the second case "potenitally" seems to be used more...
Comedy Tonight, from "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" ( http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/afunnythinghappenedonthewaytotheforum/comedytonight.htm ...
.i da mi no spisa be la daminospitsas cu setese dunda (Someone gave me no pieces of Domino's(R) Pizza) .i gerna fi lu ganra grana garna li'u ("A broad-stick...
... I had to look that up, as usually we say "gendra" to say that a phrase is grammatical. The distinction is that "gerna fi do'i" means that there is a ...
... (For your last, I think you meant "do'i gendra". "do'i gerna" means that an utterance IS a grammar/grammatical rule, which is pretty much a meaningless...
Hello, my dear fellow Lojbanists. A complaint on our LiveJournal community page caught my attention. It said, that the Lojbanic Community should move to a web...
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