Symbols
- "a" is letteral, References to lerfu, References to lerfu
- $, Computerized character codes
- (n + 1)(n + 1) = n^2 + 2n + 1, Simple infix expressions and equations
- (n+1)-th rat, Special mekso selbri
- +1 + -1 = 0, Simple infix expressions and equations
- -1, Signs and numerical punctuation
- 1 + 1 = 2, Simple infix expressions and equations
- 10^20, Infix operators revisited
- 12-point, Alien alphabets
- 123, Lojban numbers
- 2 + 2, Truth-value abstraction:
jei
- 2 rats + 2 rabbits = 4 animals, Using Lojban resources within mekso
- 2/7, Signs and numerical punctuation
- 3 * 10^8, Infix operators revisited
- 3 grams, Simple infix expressions and equations
- 3.1415, Signs and numerical punctuation
- 8 out of 10, Special mekso selbri
A
- A gives B to C, lerfu words as pro-sumti
- A gives BC, lerfu words as pro-sumti
- A loves B, lerfu words as pro-sumti
- ABC base 16, Non-decimal and compound bases
- Abraham Lincoln, Truth questions and connective questions
- Acer, fu'ivla
- addition problems, Other kinds of simple selbri
- afraid of horse, Relative clauses and descriptors
- after sleep, Propositional attitude indicators, Propositional attitude indicators, Propositional attitude indicators, Propositional attitude indicators, Propositional attitude indicators
- aleph null, Special numbers
- Alexander Pavlovitch Kuznetsov, lerfu words as pro-sumti
- all-th, Special mekso selbri
- always and everywhere, Space interval modifiers: FEhE
- American dollars, Computerized character codes
- Amsterdam, Buffering Of Consonant Clusters
- and earlier, Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- and simultaneously, Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- and then, Tensed logical connectives, Tensed logical connectives, Tensed logical connectives, Tenses, modals, and logical connection, Tenses, modals, and logical connection, Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- anyone who goes
-
- walks, The problem of
“any”
- Appassionata, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison
- approximately 40, Approximation and inexact numbers
- Armstrong, Syllabication And Stress
- Arnold, cmene
- Artur Rubenstein, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison
- assumption, Evidentials
- at least, Approximation and inexact numbers
- at least two, Approximation and inexact numbers
- at most, Approximation and inexact numbers
- at most two, Approximation and inexact numbers
- attend school, Interval properties: TAhE and
roi
- Avon, Modal tags: BAI
B
- bear wrote story, The three basic description types
- Bears wrote book, Individuals and masses
- beautiful dog, The sumti
di'u and
la'e di'u
- beefsteak, Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- Beethoven, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison
- beetle, Dependent places
- being alive, Types of event abstractions
- better, Comparatives and superlatives
- between Dresden and Frankfurt, Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection, Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection, Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- bicycle race, Minor abstraction types
- big boat, lujvo
- big nose, What are you pointing at?
- big nose-pores, What are you pointing at?
- big person, What are you pointing at?
- big red dog, Logical connection within tanru
- Bill Clinton, The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour
- blue
-
- as sad, Miscellaneous indicators
- blue and red, Non-logical connectives
- blue house, Conversion: SE, Logical connection within tanru, Logical connection within tanru
- blue-eyed, Eliding SE rafsi from tertau
- boat sailed, Tenses as sumti tcita
- bomb destroyed fifty miles, Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- bone bread, Buffering Of Consonant Clusters
- Boston from Atlanta, Standard bridi form:
cu
- both dogs, Indefinite numbers
- bovine, Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- breathe, Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- brie, fu'ivla
- Brooklyn, Linked sumti: be-bei-be'o
- brothers, Non-logical connectives, Non-logical connectives, Non-logical connectives, Non-logical connectives
- Brown
-
- John, cmene, cmene
- Bulgarian, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla
- butter is soft, Individuals and masses
- butterfly
-
- social, tanru
C
- can see, Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
- car goer, Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
- carried piano, Non-logical connectives
- carry sack, Mixed modal connection
- carry sack and dog, Tensed logical connectives, Tensed logical connectives, Tensed logical connectives
- carry the piano, Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- Carthage destroyed, Evidentials
- cat of plastic, Relativized pro-sumti:
ke'a
- Catherine, cmene
- Cathy, cmene
- cause death, Lojban sumti raising
- cave, Story time
- Chief, cmene
- child on ice, Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- choose from, Non-logical connectives
- Chrysler, selbri based on sumti: me
- CIA, Acronyms
- cobra, fu'ivla
- coffee mixed with tea, More about non-logical connectives
- coffee or tea, Truth questions and connective questions
- coin heads, Special mekso selbri
- condescension, Attitudinal modifiers
- continues, Event contours: ZAhO and
re'u
- cup's friend, Relative phrases
- curious, Predication/sentence abstraction
D
- deference, Attitudinal modifiers
- Devanagari, Alien alphabets
- die after living, Tenses as sumti tcita
- discuss in language, More about non-logical connectives
- DNA, Acronyms
- doctor and then rich, Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- dog bites, Dropping the prenex
- dog or cat, Truth questions and connective questions, Truth questions and connective questions, Truth questions and connective questions
- doghouse, The meaning of lujvo
- dogs bite, Grouping of quantifiers
- Dong, Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places.
- Doyle, Lojban names
- ducks swim, Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
E
- eat in airplane, Movement in space: MOhI
- eat themselves, Indefinite numbers
- eight out of ten, Special mekso selbri
- empathy, Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- engineering, Some simple Lojban bridi
- Englishman in Africa, Individuals and masses
- enough currency, Indefinite numbers
- enough-th, Special mekso selbri
- ete, Accent marks and compound lerfu words
- everybody loves something, Negation boundaries
- everything breathes, Restricted claims:
da poi
- everything loves everything, Universal claims
- everything sees me, Universal claims
- everything sees something, Universal claims
- except from 10 to 12, Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- experienced, Evidentials
F
- F.8 base 16, Non-decimal and compound bases
- far away from the nearby park, Tenses as sumti tcita
- fast talker, tanru
- fast-talker shoe, tanru
- father, The concept of the bridi
- father mother, lujvo
- fewsome, Special mekso selbri
- Fido, Dropping the prenex
- field rations, lujvo
- finished, Event contours: ZAhO and
re'u
- first rat, Special mekso selbri
- firstly, Other uses of mekso
- fish eat, Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU, Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU
- fish on right, Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- flashbacks in story time, Story time
- font, Alien alphabets, Alien alphabets, Alien alphabets
- formal requirement, Attitudes as scales, Attitudes as scales, Attitudes as scales, Attitudes as scales, Attitudes as scales, Attitudes as scales
- former market, Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- four "e"s, References to lerfu
- Four score and seven, Four score and seven: a mekso problem
- fourteen "e"s, What's a letteral, anyway?
- Frank is a fool, Predication/sentence abstraction, Predication/sentence abstraction
- friend's cup, Relative phrases
- from one to two o'clock, Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- function f of x, Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
G
- German rich man, Grouping of afterthought connectives
- Gettysburg Address, Four score and seven: a mekso problem
- girls' school
-
- little, Three-part tanru grouping with
bo, Three-part tanru grouping with
bo, Three-part tanru grouping with
bo
- give, The concept of the bridi, The concept of the bridi, The concept of the bridi
- give or receive, Tagging places: FA
- giving the horse, Property abstractions
- go, Standard bridi form:
cu
- go to Boston from Atlanta, Standard bridi form:
cu
- go to market, Introductory
- go to Paris or Rome, Logical Connectives and DeMorgan's Law
- go to the store, What are the typographical conventions of this book?
- goer table, Simple tanru
- good house, Linked sumti: be-bei-be'o
- grasp water, Other modal connections
- great soldier, Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo, Ordering lujvo places.
H
- had earlier, Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- han4zi4, What about Chinese characters?
- hands in pockets, Relative phrases
- handwriting, Alien alphabets
- happiness, Abstraction focus pro-sumti:
ce'u
- has a heart, Property abstractions
- have never, Interval properties: TAhE and
roi
- healthy, Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions
- Helvetica font, Alien alphabets
- hepatitis, rafsi, rafsi
- hiragana, Alien alphabets
- hit cousin, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives
- hit nose, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives
- hits, The concept of the bridi
- Hollywood, Descriptors for typical objects
- hours
-
- minutes
-
- seconds: example, Non-decimal and compound bases
- huh?, Miscellaneous indicators
- husband and wife, Evidentials
I
- IBM, Acronyms
- if coffee
-
- bring tea, Truth questions and connective questions
- in the aftermath, Tenses as sumti tcita
- individual, Special mekso selbri
- infant ducks, Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
- inferior, Attitudinal modifiers
- infinity, Special numbers
- inflammable, Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
- intermittently, Interval properties: TAhE and
roi
- irrational number, Relative clauses and complex sumti:
vu'o
J
- James, Consonant Clusters
- Jane, cmene
- Japanese hiragana, Alien alphabets
- Japanese katakana, Alien alphabets
- Jesus, Minor abstraction types
- Jim, cmene
- John and Sam, The concept of the bridi, The concept of the bridi, The concept of the bridi
- John Brown, cmene, cmene
- John is coming, What are attitudinal indicators?, What are attitudinal indicators?, What are attitudinal indicators?, What are attitudinal indicators?, What are attitudinal indicators?
- John Paul Jones, Lojban names
- John says that George goes to market, Tenses in subordinate bridi
- Jupiter life, Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
- juror 5, Possessive sumti
K
- katakana, Alien alphabets
- Kate, cmene
- Katrina, cmene
- kept on too long, Event contours: ZAhO and
re'u
- killing Jim, Types of event abstractions
- kissing Jane, Event abstraction
- know, Predication/sentence abstraction
- know who, Indirect questions
- Korean, fu'ivla, fu'ivla
L
- Lady, cmene
- large meal, Attitudinal modifiers
- lemon tree, Simple tanru
- Length * Width * Depth = Volume, Using Lojban resources within mekso
- Lepidoptera, tanru
- less than, Approximation and inexact numbers
- less than two, Approximation and inexact numbers
- likes more than, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison
- lion in Africa, Descriptors for typical objects
- lions in Africa, Individuals and masses
- list, Non-logical connectives
- list of things to do, More about non-logical connectives
- listen attentively, Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
- living things, Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
- Livingston, Evidentials
- long ago and far away, Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
- long-sword, lujvo with more than two parts.
- Lord, cmene
- Lottie, Lojban names
- love more, Property abstractions
- lukewarm food, sumti qualifiers
- Lyra, Lojban names
M
- magic square, Vectors and matrices
- man or woman, Logical connection and truth tables
- man-woman, Logical connection within tanru
- manhole, Compound spatial tenses
- manysome, Special mekso selbri
- maple sugar, fu'ivla
- maple trees, fu'ivla
- meat slice, Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- mice, Minor abstraction types
- Mitsubishi, What about Chinese characters?
- mixed with, Non-logical connectives
- Mon Repos, Dependent places
- more than, Approximation and inexact numbers
- more than two, Approximation and inexact numbers
- mother father, lujvo
- my, Possessive sumti
- my chair, Multiple relative clauses:
zi'e
N
- n people, Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- NATO, Acronyms
- near the faraway park, Tenses as sumti tcita
- near the park, Tenses as sumti tcita
- nearby in time, Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
- New York city, Relative phrases, Relative phrases
- New York state, Relative phrases
- Newport News, Lojban names
- news, Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU, Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU
- nothing sits, Negation boundaries
- Nth rat, Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- nth rat, Special mekso selbri
- Nthly, Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- NYC, Acronyms
O
- observation, Evidentials
- ocean shell, Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- Old McDonald, The Special Lojban Characters
- on two occasions, Sub-events
- on verge, Event contours: ZAhO and
re'u
- once, Interval properties: TAhE and
roi
- once and future king, Tenses, modals, and logical connection, Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- One
-
- the, cmene
- only, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives
- only once, Interval properties: TAhE and
roi
- opinion, Evidentials
- opposite-of-minus, Miscellany
- owe money, Multiple compound bridi
P
- Persian rug, rafsi
- person's arm, Relative phrases
- Pete, cmene
- piano-moving, Individuals and masses
- place of eating, Conversion of sumti tcita: JAI
- plant grows, Modal sentence connection: the causals, Modal sentence connection: the causals, Modal sentence connection: the causals, Modal sentence connection: the causals, Modal sentence connection: the causals, Modal negation
- prayer, Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places.
- Preem Palver, Other kinds of simple selbri
- pregnant sister, Discursives, Discursives
- pride of lions, Using Lojban resources within mekso
- probability .5, Special mekso selbri
- pronouncement, Evidentials
- property of loving, Property abstractions
R
- Ralph, Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- rat eats cheese, Interval properties: TAhE and
roi, Tenses as sumti tcita, Tenses as sumti tcita, Tenses as sumti tcita
- rat eats cheese in park, Conversion of sumti tcita: JAI, Conversion of sumti tcita: JAI
- rats are brown, Masses and sets
- rats in park, Special mekso selbri
- Red Pony, sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers
- red pony, Relative clauses and complex sumti:
vu'o, Relative clauses and complex sumti:
vu'o
- regularly, Interval properties: TAhE and
roi
- respectively, Non-logical connectives
- rich and German, More about non-logical connectives, More about non-logical connectives
- rock face, Space interval modifiers: FEhE
- Roman Empire, Types of event abstractions
- room which he built, Relative clauses within relative clauses, Relative clauses within relative clauses
- rounded down, Approximation and inexact numbers
- rounded up, Approximation and inexact numbers
- rug
-
- Persian, rafsi
- runner shoe, tanru
S
- said John, Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI, Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI, Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI, Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
- salad ingredients, Space interval modifiers: FEhE
- scale of redness, Special mekso selbri
- school building, Dependent places
- schooner, Lojban content words: brivla
- see with eye, Modal selbri
- see with left eye, Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- set of all rats, Special mekso selbri
- set of rats, sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers
- shell worm, Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- shellfish, Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- Sherman tank, rafsi
- ship sank, Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- shook stick, What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?, What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
- Simon says, Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series
- simultaneously, Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- singular me, Special mekso selbri
- sister pregnant, Discursives, Discursives
- six-shooter, Sub-events
- sneak in, Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- snow falls, Tenses as sumti tcita
- snowball's chance, Special mekso selbri
- social butterfly, tanru
- Socrates, Modal sentence connection: the causals
- some do not go to school, Using
naku outside a prenex
- some relationship, selbri variables
- somebody loves self, Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- somebody loves somebody, Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- somebody's dog, Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- something is loved by everybody, Negation boundaries
- something sees everything, Universal claims
- something sees me, Existential claims, prenexes, and variables, Variables with generalized quantifiers
- south face, Space interval modifiers: FEhE
- sow grain, Space interval modifiers: FEhE
- sowed grain, Tense questions:
cu'e
- spaghetti, fu'ivla
- SQL, Acronyms
- Steven Mark Jones, lerfu words as pro-sumti
- stroke cat then rabbit, Tensed logical connectives, Tensed logical connectives, Tensed logical connectives
- Sun
-
- the, cmene
- supper, rafsi
- Susan, Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
- syllabic pronunciations of consonants
-
- in fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla
- in fu'ivla category attachment, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla
- syllabication
-
- variants of, Syllabication And Stress
T
- Take care!, Vocatives and commands
- Talk!, Vocatives and commands
- talker, tanru
- taller, The concept of the bridi
- tan(pi/2) = infinity, Using Lojban resources within mekso
- tank
-
- Sherman, rafsi
- the destination, Conversion: SE
- the go-er, Conversion: SE
- The men are women, The three basic description types
- the two of you, sumti-based descriptions, sumti-based descriptions
- thingy, Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- this boat, Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series, Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series, Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
- three bears, sumti-based descriptions, sumti-based descriptions, sumti-based descriptions
- three cats white
-
- and two big, A few notes on variables
- three dogs bite two men, Grouping of quantifiers
- Three Kings, selbri based on sumti: me
- three of four people, Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- three or four people, Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- three rats, Special mekso selbri
- title of book, sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers
- to movie
-
- house
-
- office: example, Tagging places: FA
- to-do list, More about non-logical connectives
- tomorrow, lujvo with more than two parts.
- too long, Event contours: ZAhO and
re'u, Tenses as sumti tcita
- toward her right, Movement in space: MOhI
- toward my right, Movement in space: MOhI
- transfinite cardinal, Special numbers
- traveling salesperson, Modal tags: BAI
- try the door, Lojban sumti raising
- try to go, Inversion of tanru:
co
- twice today, Tenses as sumti tcita
- two brothers, Other kinds of simple selbri
- two dogs are white, Quantified descriptions
- typical Englishman, Descriptors for typical objects
- typical Lojban user, Masses and sets
W
- walk to market, Conversion of simple selbri
- want to be a soldier, The syntax of abstraction
- wash self, Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
- weapon against self, Dropping the prenex
- went and bought, Tenses, modals, and logical connection, Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- what is your name, sumti and bridi questions:
ma and
mo
- when, Tense questions:
cu'e
- when else, Tense questions:
cu'e
- when/where/how, Tense questions:
cu'e
- where, Tense questions:
cu'e
- whether criminal, Truth-value abstraction:
jei
- window, The six types of logical connectives
- word "abu", References to lerfu
- word "bu", The universal
bu