Re: [engelang] Xorban CC- stems - engelang messages

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:23 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:

For the quantifier predicates, let's provisionally suppose there are three series (corresponding to the three types I mentioned), indicated by one of the two Cs, with the other C indicating the fraction, which might include:

none [on the arguable grounds that this is more basic than negation]
some
some-but-not-all
all
most
large proportion
small proportion
?almost all
?almost none

Do the latter two mean "many if not all" and "few or none" respectively? We definitely need those. I honestly have not given non-FOL quantifiers much thought nor have I thought about this scheme of making numbers into basic predicates (I am still looking at s- and r-), but whatever you come up with that works and fills a gap I'll add to the list.

... So that would involve reserving a space of 3*(6--9) CC combos. They don't all need to be CC, tho.

I guess things like "want", "believe", "intend", "start" might warrant CCs too, i.e. on grounds of individual importantness.

The first one in this class to get a CC would be "know", if going by frequency of usage in natlangs (IIRC). I will try to dig up my copy of the BNC frequency list later.

> I probably will whip together a shake-n-bake Lojbanically a-posteriori vocabulary

What's a *Lojbanically* a-posteriori vocab? I'd like a handcrafted one, where patterning among forms reflects patterning among meanings.

I am just talking about importing a bunch of predicates from Lojban, making sure they don't clash with each other, and at the same time start to study them and group them by their patterns.