Re: The design of Lojban

[JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>]

 la ed mi spuda di'e
>>  I don't agree that you can have
>>{le nu broda cu prenu} = "the event of brodaing is a person"
>
>In English, a corporation is a legal person different from all the people
>and things that make it up, defined by the relation among those people and
>things in the act of incorporation et seq. Does this qualify?

Not in my view. A corporation may be a prenu, that's a matter
for lojbo lawyers to decide, but it isn't an event. {i xu lo kagni
cu prenu i mi na djuno i xu lo kagni cu fasnu i pe'i na go'i}

>>or {lo prenu cu fasnu} = "some person happens".
>
>I think this is possible in some science fiction contexts, especially in
>the "many worlds" ontology sometimes proposed for quantum mechanics. In
>fact, I remember several episodes of Star Trek and of course Dr. Who which
>seem to call for such statements.

What would it mean? In what context would you say that a person
occurs?

 co'o mi'e xorxes