Re: lojban stylistics

["Arthur W. Protin Jr." (GC-ACCURATE) <cbmvax!uunet!PICA.ARMY.MIL!protin>]

Folks,
    I am slow.  I do not understand the issue that Nick Nicholas is
arguing with:

> a conflict between two stylistics:
>
> 1. Strict sumti order. Advantageous in that mental parsing is straightforward.
> When I first saw all them {fa} and {fe} in lojbab's tyranslation, I was
> horrified. 'What is this - argument number two, argument number five? Yuck!'
>
> 2. Free sumti order. Motivated by two factors:
> a. Emphasis. This is sorta what happens in free-order langs like Greek and
> Esp, and what lojbab was emulating without asking too many questions (no
> flame intended).
> b. Conciseness. With good order, you kill off all them nasty terminators
> you keep forgetting (get as many of 'em as possible elided out by the {.i})

Can someone help please?


Arthur Protin <protin@pica.army.mil>
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