Re: Some more Madzhi grammar
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 18, 2002, 19:38 |
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At 10:37 pm -0500 17/3/02, John Cowan wrote:
>Frank George Valoczy scripsit:
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>> > In Lojban a dog certainly does dog, not in the English sense of 'to dog',
>> > of course.
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>> In what sense then? I can't conceive of what sense it would be in.
>
>In the same sense that a house houses: viz. a dog is what dogs (=
>exhibits the behaviors, appearance, etc. of a dog). Every Lojban
>content word is a verb, and the ones that match nouns on other
>languages mean "to be a <noun>".
Presumably, in fact, just like the Esperanto 'hundi'.
Ray.
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