motion verbs in Tokana + Lojban question

John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:

>AFMCL, the 22 Lojban spatial prepositions/adverbs ("tenses" in
>Lojban jargon) all refer to locations.
And at the same time I got this from another person (scary
coincidence?) when talking about the "logicality" of SVO
order (as opposed to SOV and VSO):

>If you know anything about Lojban, I think most of their gismu place
>structures have an internal SVO word order, that is one word might be
>defined as "x1 hits x2." Of course, that's probably because the lang
>was designed by English speakers. :)
Is this true? And do you agree with that? I know nothing about
Lojban except its name, and the word _gismu_, though I don't
know its meaning either...


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