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maikxlx scripsit:
> (For example, in Lojban "I try to run" gets rendered as "I am
> a runner-type-of tryer", where a word meaning "runner" modifies
> a word meaning "tryer"; i.e. syntactically, "runner" is used
> as the vague, general purpose modifier in an unqualified tanru.
Well, that's one way to do it. Lojban is a TMTOWTDI language.
You can also say, with greater semantic precision, I am a tryer
of the event {I run}. And you can use tenses to qualify the
trying and the running as to time, space, habituality, etc.
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