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Re: [engelang] Xorban: Semantics of "l-" (and "s-" and "r-")

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:50 PM, John E. Clifford <kali9putra@hidden.email> wrote:

Of course, I don't believe a moment of it.  Most of these interpretation don't do what they are meant to do on the linguistic level.  And, in keeping with that, neither does MV R.  As you note with startling honesty, MV R need have nothing to do with R.  And yet the whole point of all this is to explain expressions which a seriously about R.  To be sure, in a lila model, where everything is about the performing deity, being the deity is always relevant, but even then, when talking about rabbits, it is the deity rabbiting, not just the deity in se that is called for.

So, I'll stick with my context-leaping s, until some one comes up with a case that it can't solve.  And then I'll work out from it rather than jumping to cloud-cuckoo land.

If you ever work out a formal description of Djanban, please let us know.  I think it would be interesting to have something tangible built on a different design outlook to compare to Xorban.  Of course Xorban has to handle extensions just as your language will need to handle intensions, so I think the putative differences may be (slightly) less dramatic than what sometime seem to be suggested in these discussions.  But I'd definitely welcome the opportunity to study what you have in mind in a form (much) less baroque than Old Lojban.