loglang syntax (was: brz, or Plan B revisited (LONG))

R A Brown wrote:
> Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
>> Hallo!
>>
>> R A Brown wrote:
[snip]
>>> Interestingly, Loglan & Lojban are essentially prefix-order
>>
>>
>>
>> The sketch of Lojban I have here shows an English-like mixfix order:
>> X1 P X2 X3 ...  How unelegant.
>
>
> Yes, I believe I was in error about Lojban. I does seem inelegant for a
> loglang.
Yikes!! It seems I was error about Loglan too!

I've just been reading some introductory Loglan examples, and I find
{quote}
     * Mi vizka. "I see (something) against (something)." or "I see."
     * Mi vizka tu. "I see you."
    .....

If the first argument is missing, the predicate is a command.

     * Vizka mi. "See me!"
{/unquote}

Maybe senility is setting in, but they look just a tad like English
relexes. How is this meant to test the Sapir-Worf hypothesis?

It seems that the argument that precedes the functor is the grammatical
subject and, as Jörg recently (and correctly IMO) observed, terms like
subject & object are not appropriate for a language that is supposed to
be based on predicate-logic.

I was assuming a rather more Prolog-like syntax would be used.

Have I missed something here?


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