Lojban 4: Modals and Events
Channel: Robert Baruch
Date: 2020-04-05

Lojban is a constructed language. One of its features that really attracted me was its unambiguous parsing when written or spoken. This means that it could be used as a natural human/machine interlingua.

Part 4 goes into how to add places to a selbri that doesn't have the place you need. Also, event sumti.

Errata:

This sentence is ungrammatical:

lo nu mlatu kei krinu lo nu la .internet.
Cats are the justification for the Internet.

It should be:

lo nu mlatu kei krinu lo nu la .internet. zasti
Cats are the justification for the Internet existing.

Or, this:

lo nu mlatu kei krinu lo nu mujysamseltcana
Cats are the justification for the Internet.

All the modals: https://mw-live.lojban.org/papri/Category:BPFK_Sections_including_selma%27o_BAI
Why cats are the justification for the Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_activism

The Complete Lojban Language (1997): http://lojban.github.io/cll/
Online dictionary: http://vlasisku.lojban.org/
Online parser: http://lojban.github.io/ilmentufa/camxes.html
Latest version of Lojban reference: https://mw.lojban.org/papri/Category:BPFK_Section