<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Ed, you might be surprised at the expectations that Lojban defies. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">lay'tel SIvten</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Ed Bailey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com" target="_blank">bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="">On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Alan Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net" target="_blank">qunchuy@alcaco.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
</span>Reasonable expectations apparently do not apply to Klingon units of measure.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>...and not just units of measure, which is why I speculated cautiously (I forgot about that discussion of measurement). Also why it's so useful to have Maltz around (though it would be nice to hear a lot more from him), since any language (except maybe Lojban, from what I've heard) defies expectations, English more than some. When my daughter was two, she had the reasonable expectation that the contraction for "am not" was "amn't." Recently we found out {jeS} never takes an object, contrary to a lot of people's expectations that it wouldn't necessarily be intransitive like English "participate." Fine by me, or I'd quit and study Lojban instead.<br></div><div>~mIp'av<br></div></div></div></div>
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