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Re: [engelang] Re: Engelangs - A Design Goal Catalog



> John Cowan <jcowan@r...> wrote:
> > 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.

Sorry - what is 'TMTOWTDI'?

Bfowol