Lojban In General

Lojban In General


Compound vs Coordinate Bilinguals

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In a message dated 8/27/2009 00:55:55 Eastern Daylight Time,
adam.raizen@gmail.com writes:


> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 05:59, <<A HREF="mailto:MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com">MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com</A>> wrote:
> >> In a message dated 8/26/2009 17:35:15 Eastern Daylight Time, <A HREF="mailto:adam.raizen@gmail.com">
>> adam.raizen@gmail.com</A> writes:
>> >>> My point is that all definitions are essentially the same as
>>> dictionary definitions (which is why I added that word), and that the word's
>>> usage comes first and the definition afterwards, and even the most deftailed
>>> definition captures only a pale shadow of the word's usage.
>>>
>>
>> This is precisely the difficulty that NSM overcomes.
>>
>
>
> You're kidding, right?
>

No, I'm not kidding.

stevo