Hi!
I read about Lojban and started the "Lojban Tutorial" some time ago, but I stopped. Now I think that it would be a good subject for my senior thesis in Computer Science. Maybe involving the language and AI.
I would like to know if you have ideas about this! Thanks!
Are there any Lojbanic translations out there of, for example, the Declaration of Independence of the Constitution?
If not, I would not mind tackling them. If so, where may I see them?
" le nakni tamne to be mi toi bei le bruna be le mamta be mi bei lei selpanzi ka'e tavla bau le rusko "
1) Is the grammar correct? I was concerned with not closing the bei's but, at the same time, the terbri in the gismu's definitions ran out, so it should be unambiguous as to which gismu the internal sumti belongs.
2) Did I correctly apply sumti for the "relationship/tie" terbri?
3) Is the use of ka'e correct? How about of bau, or should I have used the fourth terbri of zo tavla?
4) I was trying to say "my male cousin, related by the biological brother of my mother (my biological maternal uncle), can speak Russian". Did I translate this concept accurately?
In Lojban, how does one ask "how tall is it?" or "how short is it?"? I think this question matters. In normal conversation, the first question is a request for information concerning the measure of a distance vertically from one end point to another, both located on some object. The second does the same thing, but with an intrinsic and strong connotation of shortness (id est: the distance is lesser by some standard). The way that the question should be asked would either be "is it tall?"/"it is small?" or "what is its vertical measure from loci ___ to loci ___ in units ___?". The is a much less suggestive and more mechanically neutral style of question, even prefered over the former format (which a pointed).
Similarly, Lojbani (jbopre) should refrain from saying "three is bigger than two" but should instead use "three is numerically greater than two". If there is a separate word for this type of "great(er)" (as opposed to "amazing", "good", "powerful", or "big"), then this should be used.
I've been doing a careful reading of chapters 3 and 4 of the CLL in an attempt to answer some questions (of my own) about cmene morphology.
Short refresher: there are rules governing which consonants can be adjacent to each other (consonant pairs), which consonant pairs can appear at the beginning of a word (initial consonant pairs), and which groups of three consonants can exist (consonant triples).
From what I can tell, consonant pair rules apply to all words, including cmene, so "akbar" and "djeimz" are both invalid, but initial pair rules and consonant triple rules don't apply to cmene at all, so "mknil" and "andjelin" are both valid cmene. Unfortunately, both jbofi'e and camxes think "andjelin" is an invalid cmene, even though the much more difficult consonant cluster in "mknil" is considered valid by both. Is this an error, or is there a reason to disallow "andjelin" while ignoring all the other consonant triple rules?
Another thing: cmene have penultimate stress by default, although non-default stress can be indicated with capitalization. Syllabic consonants and 'y' syllables are skipped when determining default stress, but it isn't completely clear whether 'iy' and 'uy' syllables are skipped or not. ('iy' and 'uy' diphthongs are allowed in cmene, but nowhere else.) I'm assuming they're skipped.
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