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On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:42:24PM +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:
> The word order coup that Bob asks about is the realisation that
>
> ro lo mikce cu tavla pa lo prenu
>
> is different from
>
> pa lo prenu cu se tavla ro lo mikce
>
> because their intrinsic prenexes are different: AxEy vs. EyAx
Bah. Calling this a 'coup' is a bit dramatic, xod. This has been
sitting in CLL chapter16 written in plain english for you to read
for the past 4 years or however long you said.
> xod and Robin had assumed that se-conversion is always always always
> meaning-preserving, so the second sentence would still mean each doctor
> talks to a person (not necessarily the same). xod found this painful
> enough, I gather, that he now thinks he might as well relearn all of
> Lojban.
>
> If you disagree on this take on how prenexes work, please, let's not
> get into that right now.
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Jordan DeLong - fracture@hidden.email
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sei la mark. tuen. cusku
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