Re: The design of Lojban

[Colin Fine <colin@KINDNESS.DEMON.CO.UK>]

vecu'u le notci po'u <877651012.0929049.0@listserv.cuny.edu> la JORGE
JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR> cu cusku di'e
>And:
>>> Lojbab has said that he sometimes sees people as events, so
>>> event Lojbab may yet happen to defend it.  :)
>>I agree with Lojbab here (always surprises me when that happens).
>>To my mind, restricting a tersumti to a nu serves only to exclude
>>abstract objects like numbers, ka, du`u, and so on.
>
>Well, I may agree with you. I don't agree that you can have
>{le nu broda cu prenu} = "the event of brodaing is a person"
>or {lo prenu cu fasnu} = "some person happens". In other
>words, {lo'i prenu} and {lo'i fasnu} are disjoint sets. But I do
>agree that in general, you can have places that can
>be filled both with events and with people:
>
>                mi viska do e le nu do klama le zarci
>                I see you and your going to the market.
>
>{le se viska} can equally well be a person or an event.
>It is not clear to me why a {bandu} has to be only an event.
>
>>Colin Fine once did a systematic study of the ontological
>>nature of each tersumti of each gismu. I would like to look
>>this up. Would anyone happen to know whether it is archived,
>>and how one might find it?
>
>Did he ever actually do the study? I remember his discussions
>of the categories he would use, but I don't know whether he
>actually went ahead with it.
>
> co'o mi'e xorxes

I did some fragments. I can see if I can find any of the work.
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