General Index

Symbols

"a" is letteral: References to lerfu, References to lerfu
$: Computerized character codes
&
- word for "&": The universal bu
'
- "'" and consonant cluster determination in lujvo: lujvo
- definition of symbol "'" (see also apostrophe): The special Lojban characters
(n + 1)(n + 1) = n² + 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
-ek
- in name for logical connectives: The six types of logical connectives
-er
- use of zmadu in forming: rafsi
-ity: Property abstractions
-ness: Property abstractions
-ng
- Lojban contrasted with English: Syllabication and stress
.
- word for ".": The universal bu
.e'o: Propositional attitude indicators
1 + 1 = 2: Simple infix expressions and equations
10²⁰: 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 grams: Simple infix expressions and equations
3 × 10⁸: Infix operators revisited
3.1415: Signs and numerical punctuation
4-letter rafsi
- definition: rafsi
5-letter rafsi
- definition: rafsi
9 out of 10: Special mekso selbri
ℵ₀: Special numbers

A

A
- notation convention for logical connectives: The four basic vowels
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
a/an
- contrasted with English "the": Miscellaneous indicators
abbreviated lujvo and plausibility: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau
ABC base 16: Non-decimal and compound bases
abduction
- example: Evidentials
Abraham Lincoln: Truth questions and connective questions
absolute laws: Why have lujvo?
abstract description: Lojban sumti raising
abstract lujvo: Abstract lujvo
abstraction bridi
- contrasted with component non-abstraction bridi in meaning: Other kinds of simple selbri
- effect on claim of bridi: Modal sentence connection: the causals
abstraction conversion: Lojban sumti raising
abstraction of sentences
- contrasted with quotation: Predication/sentence abstraction
abstractions
- achievement: Types of event abstractions
- activity: Types of event abstractions
- concept: Minor abstraction types
- creating new types: Minor abstraction types
- event: Event abstraction
- experience: Minor abstraction types
- forethought connection in: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
- grammatical uses: The syntax of abstraction
- grouping of connectives in: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
- idea: Minor abstraction types
- implicit in sumti: Event abstraction
- logical connection of: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
- making concrete: Lojban sumti raising
- mental activity: Predication/sentence abstraction
- place structure: The syntax of abstraction
- point-event: Types of event abstractions
- process: Types of event abstractions
- simplification to sumti with "jai": Lojban sumti raising
- simplification to sumti with "tu'a": Lojban sumti raising
- speaking
- - writing, etc.: Predication/sentence abstraction
- state: Types of event abstractions
- sumti ellipsis in: Event abstraction
- truth-value and fuzzy logic: Truth-value abstraction: jei
- vague: Minor abstraction types
- with knowing
- - believing, etc.: Predication/sentence abstraction
- with wonder
- - doubt, etc.: Indirect questions
accent mark
- a diacritical mark: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
- example: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
accent marks
- proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters
accented letters
- considered as distinct from unaccented: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
Acer: fu'ivla
achievative event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
achievement abstraction
- place structure: Types of event abstractions
achievement abstractions
- definition: Types of event abstractions
- related tense contours: Event-type abstractors and event contour tenses
achievement event
- described: Types of event abstractions
acronym
- definition: Acronyms
acronym names from lerfu words
- assigning final consonant: Acronyms
acronyms
- as lerfu strings using "me": Acronyms
- using names based on lerfu words: Acronyms
acronyms names based on lerfu words
- omitting "bu": Acronyms
- using "z" instead of "'" in: Acronyms
activity abstraction
- place structure: Types of event abstractions
activity abstractions
- definition: Types of event abstractions
- related tense contours: Event-type abstractors and event contour tenses
activity abstractor: Types of event abstractions
activity event
- described: Types of event abstractions
actual events
- explicitly expressing: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
actual stop
- contrasted with natural end: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
actuality
- expressing in past/future: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
- Lojban contrasted with English in implying: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
addition
- a mathematical operator: Simple infix expressions and equations
addition operator
- contrasted with positive sign: Simple infix expressions and equations
addition problems: Other kinds of simple selbri
adjective ordering: Logical connection within tanru
adjective-noun combination
- with tanru: Simple tanru
adjectives
- brivla as Lojban equivalents: brivla
adverb-verb combination
- with tanru: Simple tanru
adverbs
- brivla as Lojban equivalents: brivla
affirmative answer
- quick-tour version: Questions
afraid of horse: Relative clauses and descriptors
afterthought bridi connectives
- contrasted with forethought bridi connectives: Forethought bridi connection
afterthought connection
- contrasted with forethought for grammatical utterances: Truth questions and connective questions
- definition: Other modal connections
- of operands: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- of operators: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
afterthought connectives
- as complete grammatical utterance: Truth questions and connective questions
- contrasted with forethought connectives: Forethought bridi connection
afterthought sentence connection
- modal contrasted with tense: Tenses versus modals
afterthought tense connection
- contrasted with forethought in likeness to modal connection: Tenses versus modals
ailment: Ordering lujvo places.
Alexander Pavlovitch Kuznetsov: lerfu words as pro-sumti
algebra of functions
- operator and operand distinction in: Miscellany
alienable possession
- definition: Relative phrases
aliens
- communication with: Tentative conclusion
all-th: Special mekso selbri
allowable diphthongs
- in fu'ivla contrasted with in gismu and lujvo: fu'ivla
- in gismu and lujvo contrasted with in fu'ivla: fu'ivla
alpha
- example: Alien alphabets
alphabet
- Latin used for Lojban: What's a letteral, anyway?
- Lojban: Orthography
- words for letters in
- - rationale: What's a letteral, anyway?
alphabetic order: Orthography
alphabets
- words for non-Lojban letters
- - rationale: What's a letteral, anyway?
alternative guidelines: Why have lujvo?
always and everywhere: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
ambiguity of tanru: Simple tanru
American dollars: Computerized character codes
American Indian languages and evidentials: Evidentials
Amharic writing: What about Chinese characters?
ampersand
- example: The universal bu
ampersand character
- word for: The universal bu
Amsterdam: Buffering of consonant clusters
anaphora
- definition: Anaphoric pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ri-series and the go'i-series
- pro-bridi go'i-series as: Anaphoric pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ri-series and the go'i-series
- pro-sumti ri-series as: Anaphoric pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ri-series and the go'i-series
- pro-sumti vo'a-series as: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
anaphoric pro-bridi
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
anaphoric pro-sumti
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
and
- as non-logical connective: Non-logical connectives
- compared with but: Truth questions and connective questions
- contrasted with cross-product: More about non-logical connectives
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
animal doctor
- example: Ordering lujvo places.
animal patient: Ordering lujvo places.
animals
- use of fu'ivla for specific: fu'ivla
anomalous ordering of lujvo places: lujvo with more than two parts.
answers
- "go'i" for yes/no questions: Anaphoric pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ri-series and the go'i-series
- to operator questions: Other uses of mekso
- to place structure questions: Tagging places: FA
- to tense-or-modal questions: Tense questions: cu'e
antecedent
- for pro-bridi: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- for pro-bridi as full bridi: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
antecedent of pro-bridi
- definition: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
antecedent of pro-sumti
- definition: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
anticipated
- example: Evidentials
any
- as a restricted universal claim: The problem of “any”
- as a translation problem: The problem of “any”
- as a universal claim
- - later restricted: The problem of “any”
- as an existential claim: The problem of “any”
- expressing as existential by variable in subordinate bridi: The problem of “any”
any box: The problem of “any”
anyone
- contrasted with everyone in assumption of existence: The problem of “any”
anyone who goes
- walks: The problem of “any”
aorist
- definition: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
apostrophe
- and consonant cluster determination in lujvo: lujvo
- as not a consonant for morphological discussions: Introductory
- as preferable over comma in Lojbanized names: The special Lojban characters
- definition of: The special Lojban characters
- example of: The special Lojban characters
- purpose of: The special Lojban characters
- quick-tour version: Pronunciation
- type of letter in word-formation: The special Lojban characters
- use in vowel pairs: Vowel pairs
- variant of: The special Lojban characters
Appassionata: Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison
approximate numbers
- expressing: Approximation and inexact numbers
- expressing some exactness of: Approximation and inexact numbers
approximately 40: Approximation and inexact numbers
Arabian Nights: Paragraphs: NIhO
Arabic alphabet
- language shift word for: Alien alphabets
argument tags
- based on tenses (see also sumtcita): Tenses as sumtcita
Armstrong: Syllabication and stress
Arnold: cmevla
arthropod: Dependent places
article
- number: Simple infix expressions and equations
articles
- cmavo as Lojban equivalents: cmavo
Artur Rubenstein: Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison
ASCII
- application to lerfu words: Computerized character codes
aspect
- expressing: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- natural languages compared with respect to: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
assignable pro-sumti
- explicit cancellation of by rebinding: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
assumption: Evidentials
asymmetrical tanru: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- definition: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
asymmetrical tanru types
- activity + implement-used: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- cause + effect: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- characteristic-time + event: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- characteristic/detail + object: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- effect + causative agent: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- elements-in-set + set: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- energy-source + powered: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- general-class + sub-class: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- inhabitant + habitat: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- locus-of-application + object: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- miscellaneous: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- object + component/detail: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- object + place-sold: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- object + usual-container: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- object-giving-characteristic + other-object: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- object-measured + standard-object: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- object-of-action + action: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- object-of-purpose-of-instrument + instrument: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- overriding-property + object-with-implicit-properties: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- possessor + object: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- product + producer: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- product + source: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- purpose-of-instrument + instrument: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- set + element-of-set: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- similar-appearance-object + object: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- source + product: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- source-material + object: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- typical-place + object: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- undesired-object + protection-object: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- whole + part: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
at least: Approximation and inexact numbers
- contrasted with more than
- - less than, at most: Approximation and inexact numbers
at least two: Approximation and inexact numbers
at most: Approximation and inexact numbers
- contrasted with more than
- - at least, less than: Approximation and inexact numbers
at most two: Approximation and inexact numbers
Athens: Types of event abstractions
attend school: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
attitude
- avoidance of expression: Miscellaneous indicators
- scalar: Attitudes as scales
attitudes
- beginning: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- ceasing: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- continuing: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- empathy contrasted with sympathy: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- expressing changes in: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
attitudinal
- example of scale effect: Attitudes as scales
- signaling as non-propositional: Propositional attitude indicators
attitudinal answers
- plausibility: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
attitudinal categories: Emotional categories
- example of effect: Emotional categories
- mnemonic for: Emotional categories
- rationale: Emotional categories
attitudinal indicator
- unspecified: Compound indicators
attitudinal indicators: What are attitudinal indicators?
- conventions of interpretation: Compound indicators
- placement of "nai" in: Compound indicators
- placement of scale in: Compound indicators
- quick-tour version: Indicators
attitudinal modifiers: Attitudinal modifiers
attitudinal questions: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- asking about specific attitude: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- asking intensity: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
attitudinal scale
- as axis in emotion-space: The space of emotions
- neutral compared with positive + negative: The space of emotions
- seven-position: Attitudes as scales
- stand-alone usage: Attitudes as scales
- usage: Attitudes as scales
attitudinal scales
- rationale for assignment: Attitudes as scales
attitudinals
- a- series: Propositional attitude indicators
- affecting whole grammatical structures: The uses of indicators
- and logic: What's wrong with this picture?
- at beginning of text: The uses of indicators
- attributing emotion to others: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- benefit in written expression: The uses of indicators
- categories with nai: Emotional categories
- categories with scale markers: Emotional categories
- complexity: Attitudinal modifiers
- compound: What are attitudinal indicators?
- contours: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- contrasted with bridi: Propositional attitude indicators, The space of emotions
- contrasted with discursives: Discursives
- contrasted with rationalizations of emotion: The space of emotions
- design benefit: The space of emotions
- e- series: Propositional attitude indicators
- emotional contrasted with propositional: Propositional attitude indicators
- emotional/propositional caveat: Propositional attitude indicators
- exceptions: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- external grammar: The uses of indicators
- grammar of internal compounding: Compound indicators
- grammar of placement in bridi: The uses of indicators
- i- series: Propositional attitude indicators
- internal grammar
- - complete: Compound indicators
- logical language and: Propositional attitude indicators
- negative: Attitudes as scales
- neutral: Attitudes as scales
- non-speaker attitudes: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
- order of: The space of emotions
- placement for prevailing attitude: What are attitudinal indicators?
- placement in sentences with "nai": Compound indicators
- positive: Attitudes as scales
- prevailing attitude: What are attitudinal indicators?
- propositional contrasted with emotional: Propositional attitude indicators
- propositional effect on claim: Propositional attitude indicators
- propositional/emotional caveat: Propositional attitude indicators
- rationale for: Propositional attitude indicators
- referent uncertainty: The uses of indicators
- scale of: Attitudes as scales
- stand-alone categories: Emotional categories
- word-form for primary: What are attitudinal indicators?
audio-visual isomorphism: Orthography
audio-visually isomorphic: Sentences: I
auditoriums: Dependent places
author of this book: Acknowledgements and credits
Avon: Modal tags: BAI

B

back-counting pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary
background noise: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
base
- assumed: Non-decimal and compound bases
- changing permanently: Non-decimal and compound bases
- non-constant: Non-decimal and compound bases
- specifying: Non-decimal and compound bases
- vague: Non-decimal and compound bases
base greater than 16
- compound single-digits contrasted with two digits: Non-decimal and compound bases
- expressing numbers in: Non-decimal and compound bases
- two digits contrasted with compound single-digits: Non-decimal and compound bases
base point
- in bases other than 10: Non-decimal and compound bases
base varying for each digit
- separator for: Non-decimal and compound bases
base-20 arithmetic
- remnants of: Four score and seven: a mekso problem
basis
- example: Evidentials
beach
- example: Property abstractions
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
because
- four varieties of English word "because": Modal sentence connection: the causals
beefsteak: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo, Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
Beethoven: Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison
beetle: Dependent places
beetles: Dependent places
begin
- contrasted with resume: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
beginning point
- spatial: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
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
beverage
- example: lujvo based on pro-sumti
bibliography: Informal bibliography
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
binary system
- specifying numbers in (see also base): Non-decimal and compound bases
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
bo
- for right-grouping in tanru: Complex tanru grouping
boat class
- example: lujvo-making examples
boat sailed: Tenses as sumtcita
bold
- example: Alien alphabets
bomb destroyed fifty miles: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
bone bread: Buffering of consonant clusters
books about Lojban: Informal bibliography
borrowing
- four stages of: fu'ivla
borrowing from other language
- fu'ivla as: brivla
borrowings
- fu'ivla form with categorizing rafsi: fu'ivla
- fu'ivla form without categorizing rafsi: fu'ivla
- most common form for: fu'ivla
- Stage 1: fu'ivla
- Stage 2: fu'ivla
- Stage 3: fu'ivla
- Stage 3 contrasted with Stage 4 in ease of construction: fu'ivla
- Stage 4: fu'ivla
- using foreign-language name: fu'ivla
- using lojbanized name: fu'ivla
Boston from Atlanta: Standard bridi form: cu
both dogs: Indefinite numbers
bound variable pro-sumti
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
bovine: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
bracketed remark: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
brackets
- use in IPA notation: Basic phonetics
breathe: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
bridi
- building from selbri and sumti: Standard bridi form: cu
- compared with predication: The concept of the bridi
- concept of: The concept of the bridi
- definition: Lojban content words: brivla
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
- effect of alternate form on sumti order: Standard bridi form: cu
- effect of using non-standard form: Standard bridi form: cu
- exception to sumti place structure in: Standard bridi form: cu
- leaving a sumti place unspecified in with zo'e: Standard bridi form: cu
- leaving end sumti places unspecified in: Standard bridi form: cu
- logical connection with negation: Logical connection of bridi
- logical connective for: Logical connection of bridi
- non-standard form: Standard bridi form: cu
- omitting the first sumti place: Standard bridi form: cu
- quick-tour version: Some simple Lojban bridi
- relation to selbri: Lojban content words: brivla
- selbri-first as exceptional: Standard bridi form: cu
- standard form of: Standard bridi form: cu
bridi connection
- use of imperatives in: Truth questions and connective questions
- use of truth questions in: Truth questions and connective questions
bridi logical connection
- compared with sumti logical connections: sumti connection
bridi negation
- and DeMorgan's Law: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
- and negation boundary: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
- compared with negation between sentences: bridi negation and logical connectives
- multiple: Tenses and bridi negation
- na before selbri compared to naku in prenex: Negation boundaries
- naku in prenex compared to na before selbri: Negation boundaries
- relative order with tense: Tenses and bridi negation
- two forms of: Negation boundaries
bridi negation and logical connectives: bridi negation and logical connectives
bridi questions
- quick-tour version: Questions
bridi-based comparison
- contrasted with comparison with relative phrase
- - in claims about parts: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
bridi-tail
- definition: Compound bridi
bridi-tail logical connection
- and DeMorgan's Law: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
bridi-tail modal connection: Other modal connections
bridi-tails
- eliding "vau" in: Compound bridi
- forethought tense connection of: Tense relations between sentences
brie: fu'ivla
brivla
- as one of the 3 basic word classes: Introductory
- consonant pairs in: brivla
- definition: brivla
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
- from tanru: lujvo
- properties of: brivla
- recognition of: brivla
- relation to bridi: The concept of the bridi
- stress on: Syllabication and stress
- subtypes of: brivla
- types: Lojban content words: brivla
- types of
- - quick-tour version: Examples of brivla
brivla as selbri: Lojban content words: brivla
brivla equivalents: Other kinds of simple selbri
brivla form
- contrasted with cmavo form: brivla
- contrasted with cmevla form: brivla
Brooklyn: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
brothers: Non-logical connectives, Non-logical connectives, Non-logical connectives, Non-logical connectives
Brown
- James Cooke: Acknowledgements and credits
- - and "letteral": What's a letteral, anyway?
- John: cmevla, cmevla
buffer vowel: Buffering of consonant clusters
- and stress: Buffering of consonant clusters
- shortening of: Buffering of consonant clusters
Bulgarian: fu'ivla, fu'ivla, fu'ivla
but
- compared with and: Truth questions and connective questions
- example: Discursives
but/and equivalence: Indicators
butter is soft: Individuals and masses
butterfly
- social: tanru

C

C string
- as a symbol for a single consonant: Introductory
C/C string
- as a symbol for a permissible consonant pair: Introductory
C/CC string
- as a symbol for a consonant triple: Introductory
calculator mathematics
- as default in Lojban: Simple infix expressions and equations
can see: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
canceling letter shifts: Alien alphabets
cancellation of pro-sumti/pro-bridi assignment
- with "da'o": Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
capital letters
- use in Lojban: Upper and lower cases
- use of: Orthography
capitalization
- for unusual stress in names: cmevla
- use in names: cmevla
- use of: cmevla
car goer: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
cardinal selbri
- definition: Special mekso selbri
- place structure: Special mekso selbri
- place structure effect from subjective numbers: Special mekso selbri
cardinality
- definition: Masses and sets
- property of sets: Masses and sets
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
Cartesian product
- with tenses: Sub-events
Carthage destroyed: Evidentials
case
- upper/lower specification: Upper and lower cases
cat of plastic: Relativized pro-sumti: ke'a
Catherine: cmevla
Cathy: cmevla
causals
- claiming the relation contrasted with claiming cause and/or effect and/or relation: Modal sentence connection: the causals
- gismu: Modal sentence connection: the causals
- modal: Modal sentence connection: the causals
cause death: Lojban sumti raising
cave: Story time
CC string
- as a symbol for a permissible initial consonant pair: Introductory
CCVVCV fu'ivla
- and rafsi fu'ivla proposal: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
cedilla
- a diacritical mark: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
cessitive event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
ch-sound in English
- representation in Lojban: Basic phonetics
chapter numbering: Other uses of mekso
chapter titles
- intent of: What is this book?
character codes
- definition: Computerized character codes
character encoding schemes
- application to lerfu words: Computerized character codes
characters
- definition: Computerized character codes
- special: The special Lojban characters
Chelsea Clinton: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour
chemical elements
- use of single-letter shift for: Upper and lower cases
Chief: cmevla
child on ice: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
Chilean desert
- example: rafsi fu'ivla: a proposal
Chinese characters
- contrasted with alphabets and syllabaries: What about Chinese characters?
- representing based on pinyin spelling: What about Chinese characters?
- representing based on strokes: What about Chinese characters?
choose from: Non-logical connectives
Chrysler: selbri based on sumti: me
CIA: Acronyms
circumflex
- a diacritical mark: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
clamshells: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
clarity of sounds: Basic phonetics
Classical Greek aorist tense
- compared with Lojban tense: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
closed interval: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- expressed with "mi'i": Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
closings
- letter: Vocative scales
cmavo
- as one of the 3 basic word classes: Introductory
- compound: cmavo
- contrasted with rafsi in usage: rafsi
- contrasted with same-form rafsi in meaning: lujvo
- definition: cmavo
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
- diphthongs in: cmavo
- experimental: cmavo
- for experimental use: cmavo
- lack of relation of form to grammatical use: cmavo
- rules for pause after Cy-form: Rules for inserting pauses
- simple: cmavo
- stress on: Syllabication and stress, cmavo
- structure of: cmavo
cmavo and gismu
- major: gismu
cmavo as selbri
- quick-tour version: Examples of brivla
cmavo form
- contrasted with brivla form: brivla
cmavo without rafsi
- method of including in lujvo: rafsi
cmevla
- algorithm for: cmevla
- and analyzability of speech stream: cmevla
- as one of the 3 basic word classes: Introductory
- authority for: cmevla
- avoiding impermissible consonant clusters in: cmevla
- consonant clusters permitted in: cmevla
- definition: cmevla
- dot side: cmevla
- examples of: cmevla
- from Lojban words: cmevla
- method of including in lujvo: rafsi
- purpose of: cmevla
- rationale for lojbanizing: cmevla
- requirement for pauses around: cmevla
- rules for: cmevla
- rules for formation: cmevla
- rules for pause before: Rules for inserting pauses
- stress in: cmevla, cmevla
- stress on: Syllabication and stress
- unusual stress in: cmevla
cmevla form
- contrasted with brivla form: brivla
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
Coleoptera: Dependent places
color standards: Notes on gismu place structures
Comic font: Alien alphabets
comma
- definition of: The special Lojban characters
- effect on relative clause in English: Incidental relative clauses
- example of: The special Lojban characters
- main use of: The special Lojban characters
- optional: The special Lojban characters
- quick-tour version: Pronunciation
- variant of: The special Lojban characters
command
- contrasted with observative form: Standard bridi form: cu
commands
- quick-tour version: Vocatives and commands
- with "ko": Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
commas in numbers
- as numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation
- effect of other notation conventions: Signs and numerical punctuation
- with elided digits: Signs and numerical punctuation
common abstractor: Event abstraction
commutative truth functions: The four basic vowels
comparative lujvo
- against former state: Comparatives and superlatives
- and seltau presupposition: Comparatives and superlatives
- potential ambiguity in: Comparatives and superlatives
- standardized meanings: Comparatives and superlatives
comparatives
- use of zmadu in forming: rafsi
comparison
- claims related to based on form: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
comparison with relative phrase
- contrasted with bridi-based comparison
- - in claims about parts: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
completitive event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
complex logical connection
- grouping strategies contrasted: Grouping of afterthought connectives
complex logical connectives
- grouping with bo: Grouping of afterthought connectives
- grouping with parentheses: Grouping of afterthought connectives, Grouping of afterthought connectives
complex movements
- expressing: Movement in space: MOhI
complex negation
- examples: Scalar negation of selbri
complex numbers
- expressing: Special numbers
components contrasted with mass
- in properties of: Non-logical connectives
compound base
- definition: Non-decimal and compound bases
- expressing digits in: Non-decimal and compound bases
- separator for: Non-decimal and compound bases
compound bridi
- definition: Compound bridi
- logical connection of: Compound bridi
- more than one sumti in common: Compound bridi
- multiple with "bo": Multiple compound bridi
- multiple with "ke…ke'e": Multiple compound bridi
- one sumti in common: Compound bridi
- separate tail-terms for bridi-tails: Multiple compound bridi
- separate tail-terms for forethought-connected bridi-tails: Multiple compound bridi
compound bridi with more than one sumti in common
- with common sumti first: Compound bridi
- with vau: Compound bridi
compound cmavo
- compared with sequence of simple cmavo: cmavo
- definition: cmavo
- recognition of: cmavo
compound emotions: The space of emotions
compound letters
- native language
- - representing as distinct letters: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
compound logical connectives
- components: The six types of logical connectives
- naming convention: The six types of logical connectives
compound of gismu
- lujvo as: brivla
compound spatial tense
- as direction with-or-without distance: Compound spatial tenses
- beginning with distance only: Compound spatial tenses
- effect of different ordering: Compound spatial tenses
- explanation of: Compound spatial tenses
- with direction and distance: Compound spatial tenses
compound subscript: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso, Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
compound temporal tense
- beginning with distance only: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
compound tense
- compared with multiple tenses in sentence: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- compared with tense in scope of sticky tense: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- definition: Compound spatial tenses
- Lojban contrasted with English in order of specification: Compound spatial tenses
compound tense ordering
- Lojban contrasted with English: Compound spatial tenses
computer interaction: No more to say: FAhO
concept abstraction: Minor abstraction types
concept abstractions
- place structure: Minor abstraction types
concept abstractor: Minor abstraction types
concrete terms
- use of fu'ivla for: fu'ivla
condescension: Attitudinal modifiers
confusion
- metalinguistic: Miscellaneous indicators
confusion about what was said: Miscellaneous indicators
conjunctions
- cmavo as Lojban equivalents: cmavo
connected tenses
- negation of compared with negation in connective: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
connecting operands
- with "bo" in connective: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- with "ke" in connective: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
connecting operators
- with "bo" in connective: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- with "ke" in connective: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
connection
- non-distributed: Non-logical connectives
- simultaneously modal and logical: Mixed modal connection
connection of operands
- grouping: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- precedence over operator: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
connection of operators
- grouping: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
connective answers
- non-logical: More about non-logical connectives
connective question answers
- contrasted with other languages: Truth questions and connective questions
connective question cmavo
- departure from regularity of: Truth questions and connective questions
connective questions
- answering: Truth questions and connective questions
- compared with other languages: Truth questions and connective questions
- non-logical: More about non-logical connectives
connectives
- as complete grammatical utterance: Truth questions and connective questions
- as ungrammatical utterance: Truth questions and connective questions
- table by constructs connected: Constructs and appropriate connectives
consonant
- definition: Consonant clusters
- effect on syllable count: Consonant clusters
consonant clusters
- buffering of: Buffering of consonant clusters
- contrasted with doubled consonants: Consonant clusters
- contrasted with single consonants: Consonant clusters
- definition of: Consonant clusters
- more than three consonants in: Initial consonant pairs
consonant pairs
- in brivla: brivla
- initial: Initial consonant pairs
- letter "y" within: brivla
- restrictions on: Consonant clusters
consonant triples: Initial consonant pairs
- restrictions on: Initial consonant pairs
consonant-final words
- necessity for pause after: Rules for inserting pauses
consonants
- contrasted with vowels: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- final: Consonant clusters
- position of: Consonant clusters
- pronunciation of
- - quick-tour version: Pronunciation
- restrictions on: Consonant clusters
- syllabic: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- voiced/unvoiced equivalents: Consonant clusters
- voicing of: Consonant clusters
continents
- gismu for: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
continues: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
continuitive event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
continuous
- of tense intervals: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
contradictory negation
- using "naku" before selbri: Using naku outside a prenex
contradictory negation of modals
- explanation of meaning: Modal negation
contributors to this book: Acknowledgements and credits
conversion
- accessing tense of bridi with "jai": Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
- definition: Conversion of simple selbri, Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
- effect of multiple on a selbri: Conversion: SE
- effect on BAI: Modal tags: BAI
- extending scope of: Conversion: SE
- modal: Modal conversion: JAI
- of BAI cmavo: Modal tags: BAI
- of operator places: Miscellany
- scope of: Conversion: SE
- swapping non-first places: Conversion: SE
- swapping with modal place: Modal conversion: JAI
conversion and tanru: Conversion of simple selbri
conversion into sumti from mekso: Simple infix expressions and equations
conversion of mekso into sumti: Simple infix expressions and equations
conversion of operand into operator: Miscellany
conversion of operator into operand: Miscellany
conversion of operator into selbri: Other uses of mekso
conversion of selbri into operand: Using Lojban resources within mekso
conversion of selbri into operator: Using Lojban resources within mekso
conversion of sentence with quantified variables
- technique: Using naku outside a prenex
conversion of sumti into operand: Using Lojban resources within mekso
conversion of sumti into selbri: selbri based on sumti: me
conversion with "se"
- effect of "naku" negation boundary on conversion: Using naku outside a prenex
conversion with ke: Conversion of simple selbri
converted selbri
- as different selbri from unconverted: Conversion: SE
- as resetting standard order: Conversion: SE
- compared with selbri with FA in meaning: Conversion: SE
- contrasted with other similar selbri: Conversion: SE
- contrasted with selbri with FA in structure: Conversion: SE
- definition: Conversion: SE
- forming with SE: Conversion: SE
- in descriptions: Conversion: SE
- place structure of: Conversion: SE
- retention of basic meaning in: Conversion: SE
- to access non-first place in description: Conversion: SE
creative understanding: Why have lujvo?
credits for pictures: Acknowledgements and credits
credits for this book: Acknowledgements and credits
cross product
- with tenses: Sub-events
cross-dependency: Dependent places
cross-product
- contrasted with "and": More about non-logical connectives
- of sets: More about non-logical connectives
cultural knowledge
- example: Evidentials
cultural words
- rafsi fu'ivla proposal for: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
culturally dependent lujvo: Miscellaneous indicators
cup's friend: Relative phrases
curious: Predication/sentence abstraction, Predication/sentence abstraction
Cy-form cmavo
- rules for pause after: Rules for inserting pauses
cycles: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
Cyrillic alphabet
- language shift word for: Alien alphabets
- proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for the Cyrillic alphabet

D

da'a
- default number for: Indefinite numbers
decimal point
- as numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation
- effect of different notations: Signs and numerical punctuation
- in bases other than 10: Non-decimal and compound bases
deduction
- example: Evidentials
default operator precedence
- contrasted with mekso goal: Simple infix expressions and equations
deference: Attitudinal modifiers
definable pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary
- sequences of lerfu words as: Pro-sumti summary
definite numbers
- combined with indefinite: Indefinite numbers
demonstrated potential
- expressing: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
demonstrative pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary, Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
DeMorgan's Law
- and bridi-tail logical connection: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
- and distributing a negation: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
- and internal "naku" negations: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
- and logically connected sentences: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
- and moving a logical connective relative to "naku": Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
- sample applications: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
dereferencing a pointer
- with "la'e": sumti qualifiers
derivational morphology
- definition: Introductory
derogatory terms: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour
descriptions
- and abstractions: The syntax of abstraction
- as based on first place of following selbri: Conversion: SE
- as possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
- components of: The three basic description types
- importance of selbri first place in: The three basic description types
- non-specific: The three basic description types
- quick-tour version: Description sumti
- specific: The three basic description types
- types of: The three basic description types, The three basic description types
- use of SE in: Conversion: SE
descriptions with lo
- teddy bear contrasted with real bear: The three basic description types
descriptor
- as part of description: The three basic description types
descriptors
- implicit quantifiers for: Quantified descriptions
- omission of: Indefinite descriptions
- purpose of: The three basic description types
destination: Conversion: SE
Devanagari: Alien alphabets
diacritic marks
- proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters
diacritical marks
- as lerfu: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
- considered as forming distinct letters: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
- order of specification within "tei…foi": Accent marks and compound lerfu words
- problem of position: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
- problem with multiple on one lerfu: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
- specifying with "tei…foi": Accent marks and compound lerfu words
dictionary
- superior authority of: Disclaimers
die after living: Tenses as sumtcita
digit questions: Number questions
digit string
- definition of: Other uses of mekso
digits
- cmavo for: Lojban numbers
- list of decimal: Complete table of PA cmavo: digits, punctuation, and other numbers
- list of hexadecimal: Complete table of PA cmavo: digits, punctuation, and other numbers
- names from: Miscellany
- rafsi for: Miscellany
- rationale for having 16: Non-decimal and compound bases
digits beyond 9
- word pattern: Non-decimal and compound bases
dimension
- meaning as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
dimensionality
- of walking: Dimensionality: VIhA
- order with size in spatial tense intervals: Dimensionality: VIhA
dimensionality of interval
- as subjective: Dimensionality: VIhA
dimensioned numbers
- expressing: Using Lojban resources within mekso
diphthongs
- classification of: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- contrasted with vowel pairs: Vowel pairs
- definition of: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- English analogues of: English analogues for Lojban diphthongs
- in fu'ivla: fu'ivla
- IPA for: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- list of: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- pronunciation of
- - quick-tour version: Pronunciation
- specific to cmevla: cmevla
- specific to names: cmevla
direct address: Vocative scales
direction
- following interval in tense construct: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- interaction with movement specification in tenses: Movement in space: MOhI
- order of relative to distance in spatial tenses: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- reference frame for: Movement in space: MOhI
- specification with FAhA: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
directions
- multiple with movement: Movement in space: MOhI
disambiguated instance: The meaning of lujvo
disclaimers: Disclaimers
discourse
- commentary on: Discursives
- expressing utterance relation to: Discursives
- gesture markers: Discursives
- tone of voice markers: Discursives
discrete
- of tense intervals: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
discursive indicator: Paragraphs: NIhO
discursives
- "su'a" as: Evidentials
- as metalinguistic claims: Discursives
- contrasted with attitudinals: Discursives
- definition: Discursives
- discourse commentary: Discursives
- discourse management: Discursives
- embedded: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
- expressing how things are said: Discursives
- knowledge: Discursives
- placement in sentence: Discursives
- quick-tour version: Indicators
- word-level: Discursives
discursives for consecutive discourse: Discursives
- contrasted: Discursives
discursives for managing discourse flow: Discursives
discuss in language: More about non-logical connectives
distance
- order of relative to direction in spatial tenses: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- specification with VA: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
distributing a negation: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
distribution of quantified sumti: Grouping of quantifiers
ditto
- example: Discursives
diversified species: Notes on gismu place structures
DNA: Acronyms
doctor and then rich: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
dog bites: Dropping the prenex
dog breathes: Restricted claims: da poi
dog house
- example: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour
dog or cat: Truth questions and connective questions, Truth questions and connective questions, Truth questions and connective questions
doghouse: The meaning of lujvo
- example: lujvo-making examples
dogs bite: Grouping of quantifiers
Dong: Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places.
double negation
- and "naku": Using naku outside a prenex
double negatives
- effect of interactions between quantifiers and negation on: Negation boundaries
double underscore notation convention for Quick Tour chapter: The concept of the bridi
doubled consonants
- contrasted with consonant clusters: Consonant clusters
- contrasted with single consonants: Consonant clusters
dream
- example: Evidentials
du
- as an exception within GOhA selma'o: Other kinds of simple selbri
ducks swim: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA

E

E
- notation convention for logical connectives: The four basic vowels
Earl
- example: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
eat in airplane: Movement in space: MOhI
eat themselves: Indefinite numbers
editorial commentary: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
editorial insertion: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
- of text already containing "sa'a": Miscellaneous indicators
- with "sa'a": Miscellaneous indicators
Einsteinian
- space-time intervals with 4 dimensions: Dimensionality: VIhA
ek
- definition: The six types of logical connectives
eks
- connecting operands: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- in sumti forethought logical connection: sumti connection
elementary schools: Dependent places
Elgin
- Suzette Haden and evidentials: Evidentials
elided tense
- meaning of: Introductory
elimination process: Ordering lujvo places.
ellipsis
- quick-tour version: Some simple Lojban bridi
elliptical pro-bridi: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
elliptical pro-sumti: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
elliptical sumti: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
elliptical value
- contrasted with typical value for sumti: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
embarrassment
- example: Emotional categories
embedded bridi tenses
- effect of main bridi tense on: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
embedded discursive: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
emotional categories: Emotional categories
emotional indicators
- noticeable effects of: Tentative conclusion
emotional scale: Attitudes as scales
emotions
- compound: The space of emotions
- cultural bias of expression: Tentative conclusion
- insights: The space of emotions
- recording using indicators: Tentative conclusion
- research using indicators: Tentative conclusion
- when expressed: The space of emotions
empathy: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
emphasis
- changing by using non-standard form of bridi: Standard bridi form: cu
end of file: No more to say: FAhO
endpoints
- inclusion in interval: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
engineering: Some simple Lojban bridi
English "we"
- contrasted with Lojban pro-sumti for "we": Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
English prepositions
- contrasted with modal tags in preciseness: Modal tags: BAI
Englishman in Africa: Individuals and masses
enough currency: Indefinite numbers
enough-th: Special mekso selbri
equivalents to brivla: Other kinds of simple selbri
erasure
- multiple word: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
- names: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
- of quotations with "zo": Erasure: SI, SA, SU
- quotes: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
- total: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
- word: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
error marking
- metalinguistic: Miscellaneous indicators
ete: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
event abstractions: Event abstraction
- types: Types of event abstractions
event contours
- achievative: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- as characteristic portions of events: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
- as timeless in perspective: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- cessative: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- completitive: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- continuitive: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- contrasted with tense direction in implication of extent: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- definition: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- division of the event into: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- implications on scope of event: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- inchoative: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- initiative: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- interruption: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- order with respect to TAhE and ROI: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- pausative: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- points associated with: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- resumption: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- resumptive: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- retrospective: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- strings of: Sub-events
- superfective: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- syntax of: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- temporal contrasted with spatial: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
event contours as sumtcita
- contrasted with direction and distance: Tenses as sumtcita
event types
- described: Types of event abstractions
event-relative viewpoint
- contrasted with speaker-relative viewpoint: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
events
- considered as a process: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- duration: Event abstraction
- place structure: Event abstraction
everybody loves something: Negation boundaries
everyone
- contrasted with anyone in assumption of existence: The problem of “any”
everyone bitten by dog: Dropping the prenex
everything
- expressing with "ro da": Universal claims
everything breathes: Restricted claims: da poi
everything loves everything: Universal claims
everything sees me: Universal claims
everything sees something: Universal claims
evidentials
- "ba'a" scale: Evidentials
- "ja'o" contrasted with "su'a": Evidentials
- "ka'u" contrasted with "se'o": Evidentials
- "se'o" contrasted with "ka'u": Evidentials
- "su'a" contrasted with "ja'o": Evidentials
- definition: Evidentials
- grammar: Evidentials
- in English: Evidentials
- indisputable bridi: Evidentials
- inspiration for: Evidentials
- placement in bridi: Evidentials
- quick-tour version: Indicators
- rhetorical flavor: Evidentials
- scales: Evidentials
exact number
- expressing: Approximation and inexact numbers
example of examples: What are the typographical conventions of this book?
examples
- structure of: What are the typographical conventions of this book?
examples in this book: What are the typographical conventions of this book?
except from 10 to 12: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
existential
- mixed claim with universal: Universal claims
existential claims
- definition: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- restricting: Restricted claims: da poi
existential variable
- in abstraction contrasted with in main bridi: The problem of “any”
- in main bridi contrasted with in abstraction: The problem of “any”
experience abstraction: Minor abstraction types
experience abstractions
- place structure: Minor abstraction types
experience abstractor: Minor abstraction types
experienced: Evidentials
experimental cmavo
- definition: cmavo
- forms for: cmavo
exponential notation
- with "gei": Infix operators revisited
- with base other than 10: Infix operators revisited
exporting negation to prenex
- "naku" contrasted with internal bridi negation: Using naku outside a prenex
- internal bridi negation contrasted with "naku": Using naku outside a prenex
external bridi negation
- compared to internal bridi negation: Negation boundaries
- definition: Negation boundaries
extrinsic possession
- definition: Relative phrases

F

F.8 base 16: Non-decimal and compound bases
FA tags and linked sumti: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
face
- specifying for letters: Alien alphabets
false statement
- implications of: Logical connection of bridi
far away from the nearby park: Tenses as sumtcita
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
figurative lujvo: Miscellaneous indicators
- place structure: Miscellaneous indicators
figurative speech: Miscellaneous indicators
final syllable stress
- rules for pause after: Rules for inserting pauses
finish
- contrasted with stop: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
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
fleas: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour
flexible vocabulary: brivla
floating point numbers
- expressing: Infix operators revisited
flow of discourse
- managing with discursives: Discursives
folk quantifiers
- expressing: Using Lojban resources within mekso
font: Alien alphabets, Alien alphabets, Alien alphabets
- specifying for letters: Alien alphabets
food
- use of fu'ivla for specific: fu'ivla
foreman of a jury
- example: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
forethought bridi connection
- as grammatically one sentence: Forethought bridi connection
forethought bridi connectives
- contrasted with afterthought bridi connectives: Forethought bridi connection
forethought bridi-tail connection
- special rule for tense: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
forethought connection
- contrasted with afterthought for grammatical utterances: Truth questions and connective questions
- definition: Other modal connections
- in abstractions: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
- in tenses: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- observatives: Multiple compound bridi
- of operands: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- of operators: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
forethought connections
- modal compared with tense in semantics: Tenses versus modals
forethought connectives
- as ungrammatical utterance: Truth questions and connective questions
- contrasted with afterthought connectives: Forethought bridi connection
- with tense: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
forethought connectives and bo: Grouping of afterthought connectives
forethought intervals
- GAhO position: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
forethought logical connectives
- within tanru: Logical connection within tanru
forethought logical connectives in tanru
- effect on tanru grouping: Logical connection within tanru
forethought modal sentence connection: Other modal connections
- relation to modal of first bridi in: Other modal connections
- relation to modal of second bridi in: Other modal connections
forethought modal sentence connection for causals
- order of cause and effect: Other modal connections
forethought tanru connection: Logical connection within tanru
forethought tense connection
- contrasted with afterthought in likeness to modal connection: Tenses versus modals
forethought tense connection of bridi-tails
- order of: Tense relations between sentences
forethought tense connection of sentences
- order of: Tense relations between sentences
forethought tense connection of sumti
- order of: Tense relations between sentences
forethought termsets
- logical connection of: Termset logical connection
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
former state: Comparatives and superlatives
formulae
- expressing based on pure dimensions: Using Lojban resources within mekso
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?
fraction
- meaning with elided numerator and denominator: Special numbers
fractions
- expressing with numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation
- numerator default: Signs and numerical punctuation
fragmentary text: Miscellaneous indicators
Frank is a fool: Predication/sentence abstraction, Predication/sentence abstraction
free modifiers
- effects on elidability of terminators: Subscripts
friend's cup: Relative phrases
from one to two o'clock: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
fu'ivla
- algorithm for constructing: fu'ivla
- as a subtype of brivla: brivla
- as Stage 3 borrowings: fu'ivla
- as Stage 4 borrowings: fu'ivla
- categorized contrasted with uncategorized in ease of construction: fu'ivla
- considerations for choosing basis word: fu'ivla
- consonant clusters in: fu'ivla
- construction of: fu'ivla
- definition
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
- diphthongs in: fu'ivla
- disambiguation of: fu'ivla
- form for rafsi fu'ivla proposal: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
- form of: fu'ivla
- initial consonant cluster in: fu'ivla
- method of including in lujvo: rafsi
- quick-tour version: Examples of brivla
- rules for formation of: fu'ivla
- stress in: fu'ivla
- uniqueness of meaning in: fu'ivla
- use of: fu'ivla
- with invalid diphthongs: fu'ivla
fu'ivla categorizer: fu'ivla
- for distinguishing fu'ivla form: fu'ivla
- for distinguishing specialized meanings: fu'ivla
- selection consideration for: fu'ivla
fully reduced lujvo
- definition: rafsi
function f of x: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
function name
- lerfu string as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
future event
- possible extension into present: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
futureward
- as a spatial tense: Dimensionality: VIhA
fuzzy logic and truth-value abstraction: Truth-value abstraction: jei

G

gadri
- definition: The five kinds of simple sumti
gek
- definition: Forethought bridi connection
gek bridi connectives
- contrasted with ijeks: Forethought bridi connection
geks
- connecting operands: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- in forethought sumti connection: sumti connection
- syntax of: Forethought bridi connection
General American: IPA for English speakers
general sumti
- contrasted with operands: Simple infix expressions and equations
general terms: Notes on gismu place structures
German rich man: Grouping of afterthought connectives
Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven: a mekso problem
gihek
- definition: Compound bridi
giheks
- syntax of: Compound bridi
gik
- as name for compound cmavo: The six types of logical connectives
- definition: Forethought bridi connection
giks
- syntax of: Forethought bridi connection
girls' school
- little: Three-part tanru grouping with bo, Three-part tanru grouping with bo, Three-part tanru grouping with bo
gismu
- algorithm for: lujvo-making examples
- and cmavo
- - major: gismu
- as a subtype of brivla: brivla
- as partitioning semantic space: gismu
- basic rafsi for: rafsi
- coined: The gismu creation algorithm
- conflicts between: gismu
- creation
- - and transcription blunders: The gismu creation algorithm
  - considerations for selection after scoring: The gismu creation algorithm
  - proscribed gismu pairs: The gismu creation algorithm
  - scoring rules: The gismu creation algorithm
- cultural: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
- definition: gismu
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
- ethnic: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
- examples of: gismu
- exceptions to gismu creation by algorithm: The gismu creation algorithm
- for countries: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
- for languages: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
- for Lojban source languages: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
- geographical: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
- length of: gismu
- level of uniqueness of rafsi relating to: rafsi
- Lojban-specific: The gismu creation algorithm
- place order
- - rationale: Notes on gismu place structures
- place structures: Notes on gismu place structures
- - rationale: Notes on gismu place structures
- quick-tour version: Examples of brivla
- rationale for choice of: gismu
- religious: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
- rules for: gismu
- scientific-mathematical: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
- selection of: gismu
- source of: gismu
- source-language weights for: The gismu creation algorithm
- special: gismu
- too-similar: The gismu creation algorithm
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
glottal stop
- as pause in Lojban: The special Lojban characters
glue in lujvo
- n-hyphen as: lujvo
- r-hyphen as: lujvo
- y-hyphen as: lujvo
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?
go-er: Conversion: SE
goal of this book: What is this book?
goer table: Simple tanru
goer-house
- example: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour
good house: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
grammatical categories
- use of upper case for: What are the typographical conventions of this book?
grammatical terms
- quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
grasp water: Other modal connections
great soldier: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo, Ordering lujvo places.
Greek alphabet
- language shift word for: Alien alphabets
Greek aorist tense
- compared with Lojban tense: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
Greek-Americans own restaurants: Descriptors for typical objects
grouping
- of connection in abstractions: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
- of connection in tenses: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
grouping parentheses: Complex tanru with ke and ke'e
guhek
- definition: Logical connection within tanru
guheks
- connecting operators: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- syntax of: Logical connection within tanru
guheks for tanru connection
- rationale: Logical connection within tanru

H

had earlier: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
hands in pockets: Relative phrases
handwriting: Alien alphabets
hanzi: What about Chinese characters?
happiness: Abstraction focus pro-sumti: ce'u
happy face
- example: The universal bu
has a heart: Property abstractions
have never: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
having
- of properties: Property abstractions
healthy: Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions, Questions
hearsay
- example: Evidentials
heartburn
- example: Miscellaneous indicators
Hebrew alphabet
- language shift word for: Alien alphabets
hepatitis: rafsi, rafsi
hereafter known as
- example: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
hesitation sound: Hesitation: Y
hexadecimal system
- specifying numbers in (see also base): Non-decimal and compound bases
hierarchy of priorities for selecting lujvo form: The lujvo scoring algorithm
hiragana: Alien alphabets
- contrasted with kanji: What about Chinese characters?
hit cousin: Discursives, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives
hit nose: Discursives, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives
hits: The concept of the bridi
Hollywood: Descriptors for typical objects
hospitality
- example: Vocative scales
hours
- example of timestamp: Non-decimal and compound bases
huh?: Miscellaneous indicators
hundred
- expressing as number: Lojban numbers
husband and wife: Evidentials
hyphen letter
- definition: rafsi
hyphens
- use of: rafsi
hyphens in lujvo
- proscribed where not required: The lujvo-making algorithm
hypothetical world: Propositional attitude indicators
- contrasted with real world
- - example: Discursives
hypothetical world point of view: Discursives

I

IBM: Acronyms
ICAO Phonetic Alphabet
- proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication
idea abstraction: Minor abstraction types
idea abstractions
- place structure: Minor abstraction types
identity
- expressing with "po'u": Relative phrases
identity predicate: The identity predicate: du
if
- English usage contrasted with Lojban logical connective: Logical connection of bridi
- expressing hypothetical world: Discursives
- expressing real world: Discursives
- meaning in logical connections: Logical connection of bridi
if coffee
- bring tea: Truth questions and connective questions
if … then
- compared with English "only if": Logical connection of bridi
- logical connectives contrasted with other translations: Forethought bridi connection
ijek
- definition: The six types of logical connectives
ijek bridi connectives
- contrasted with geks: Forethought bridi connection
ijek logical connectives
- connecting bridi: Logical connection of bridi
ijeks
- syntax of: Logical connection of bridi
ijoik
- as name for compound cmavo: The six types of logical connectives
- definition: More about non-logical connectives
imaginary journey
- and spatial tense: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- ending point: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- origin in tense forethought bridi-tail connection: Tense relations between sentences
- origin in tense forethought sentence connection: Tense relations between sentences
- origin in tense forethought sumti connection: Tense relations between sentences
- origin of in tense-connected sentences: Tense relations between sentences
- stages of in compound tenses: Compound spatial tenses
- starting at a different point: Tenses as sumtcita
- starting point: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA, Tenses as sumtcita
- with interval direction: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
imaginary journey origin
- with sticky tenses: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
imperatives
- and truth: Truth questions and connective questions
- attitude: Attitudinal modifiers
- English contrasted with Lojban in presence of subject of command: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
- quick-tour version: Vocatives and commands
- with "ko": Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
implausible: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau
implicit quantifier
- for quotations: Quantified sumti
- on quotations
- - discussion of: Quantified sumti
importance of point
- scale with "ra'u": Discursives
in the aftermath: Tenses as sumtcita
inalienable
- distinguishing from alienable: Relative phrases
inalienable possession
- definition: Relative phrases
- expressing with "po'e": Relative phrases
inchoative event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
incidental association
- expressing with "ne": Relative phrases
incidental identification
- expressing with "no'u": Relative phrases
incidental relative clause
- as a parenthetical device: Incidental relative clauses
- definition: Incidental relative clauses
inclusion
- property of sets: Masses and sets
indefinite description
- as needing explicit outer quantifier: Indefinite descriptions
- as prohibiting explicit inner quantifier: Indefinite descriptions
- compared with restricted variable: Variables with generalized quantifiers
- definition: Indefinite descriptions, Variables with generalized quantifiers
indefinite numbers
- combined with definite: Indefinite numbers
indefinite portions
- subjective: Indefinite numbers
indefinite pro-bridi: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
indefinite pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary, Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
- implicit quantifier for: Pro-sumti summary
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
indefinite sumti
- as implicit quantification: Using naku outside a prenex
- compared to sumti with "lo": Grouping of quantifiers
- meaning when multiple in sentence: Grouping of quantifiers
- multiple in sentence: Grouping of quantifiers
indefinite values
- subjective: Indefinite numbers
indicator scope: Paragraphs: NIhO
indicators: What are attitudinal indicators?
- evolutionary development of: Tentative conclusion
- grammar for compounding: Compound indicators
- meaning when compounded: Compound indicators
- placement of: Propositional attitude indicators
- quick-tour version: Indicators
- ramifications: Tentative conclusion
- rationale for selection: Tentative conclusion
- scope effect of new paragraph: Paragraphs: NIhO
- types of: What are attitudinal indicators?
indirect question: Miscellaneous indicators
indirect question involving sumti: Indirect questions
indirect questions
- "ma kau" contrasted with "la .djan. kau": Indirect questions
indirect questions without "kau": Indirect questions
indisputable bridi: Evidentials
individual: Special mekso selbri
individual descriptors
- different implicit outer quantifiers among: Quantified descriptions
individual objects
- multiple: Individuals and masses
individuals
- expressing relation with mass formed: Special mekso selbri
- expressing relation with set formed: Special mekso selbri
individuals into mass
- by non-logical connection: Non-logical connectives
individuals into set
- by non-logical connection: Non-logical connectives
individuals of set
- expressing measurement standard for indefinites: Special mekso selbri
indivisible: Types of event abstractions
induction
- example: Evidentials
inexact numbers with bounds: Approximation and inexact numbers
inexact portions with bounds: Approximation and inexact numbers
infant ducks: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
inferior: Attitudinal modifiers
infinity: Special numbers
infix notation mixed with Polish: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- example: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
inflammable: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
initial consonant pairs
- list of: Initial consonant pairs
initiative event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
innate capabilities
- expressing implicitly: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
innate capability
- expressing explicitly: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
innate properties
- extension of from mass to individuals: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
- extension to individuals not actually capable: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
inner product: Vectors and matrices
inner quantifier
- contrasted with outer quantifier: Quantified descriptions
- definition: Quantified descriptions
- effect of on meaning: Quantified descriptions
- explicit: Quantified descriptions
- implicit on descriptors: Quantified descriptions
- in indefinite description: Indefinite descriptions
inner sumti
- referring to from within relative clause within relative clause: Relative clauses within relative clauses
integral
- architectural concept
- - example: fu'ivla
- mathematical concept
- - example: fu'ivla
interactions between quantifiers and negation
- effect: Negation boundaries
interjections
- quick-tour version: Indicators
intermediate abstraction: Lojban sumti raising
intermittently: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
internal bridi negation
- compared to external bridi negation: Negation boundaries
- definition: Negation boundaries
internal naku negations
- and DeMorgan's Law: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
internal world: Propositional attitude indicators
International Phonetic Alphabet (see also IPA): Basic phonetics
intersect: Minor abstraction types
intersection
- of sets: More about non-logical connectives
intersection of sets
- compared with English "and": More about non-logical connectives
interval
- closed: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- followed by direction in tense construct: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- inclusion of endpoints: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- open: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- relation to point specified by direction and distance: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- relative order with direction and distance in tense: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- specifying relation to point specified by direction and distance: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
interval continuousness
- meaning as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
interval direction
- specifying: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
interval properties
- meaning as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
- strings of: Sub-events
interval size
- as context-dependent: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- meaning as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
- unspecified: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
- vague: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
interval spread
- expressing English "intermittently": Interval properties: TAhE and roi
- mutually contrasted: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
- negation with "nai": Interval properties: TAhE and roi
- with unspecified interval: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
intervals
- effect of "nai" on: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- expressed as center and distance: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- expressed as endpoints: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- expressing by endpoints with "bi'o": Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
- forethought: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- spread of actions over: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
intrinsic possession
- definition: Relative phrases
- expressing by using place in some selbri: Relative phrases
- expressing with "po'e": Relative phrases
introduce oneself: Vocative scales
invalid diphthongs
- in fu'ivla: fu'ivla
invalid speech
- marking as error with "na'i": Miscellaneous indicators
inversion of quantifiers
- definition: Negation boundaries
- in moving negation boundary: Negation boundaries
inversion of quantifiers on passing negation boundary
- rationale for: Negation boundaries
invertebrate: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
inverted tanru
- effect on sumti after the selbri: Inversion of tanru: co
- effect on sumti before the selbri: Inversion of tanru: co
inverting quantifiers
- with movement relative to "naku": Using naku outside a prenex
- with movement relative to fixed negation: Using naku outside a prenex
IPA: Basic phonetics
IPA pronunciation
- description: IPA for English speakers
irony
- example: Discursives
- expressing: Discursives
irrational number: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
irrelevant
- specifying of sumti place: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
isomorphism
- audio-visual: Orthography
IT
- as notation convention in relative clause chapter: What are you pointing at?
italic
- example: Alien alphabets
iy diphthong
- in cmevla: cmevla

J

j-sound in English
- representation in Lojban: Basic phonetics
James: Consonant clusters
Jane: cmevla
Japanese hiragana: Alien alphabets
Japanese katakana: Alien alphabets
jargon
- use of fu'ivla for: fu'ivla
jek
- definition: The six types of logical connectives
jeks
- connecting abstractors: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
- connecting operators: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- syntax of: Logical connection within tanru
Jesus: Minor abstraction types, Minor abstraction types
Jim: cmevla
John and Sam: The concept of the bridi, The concept of the bridi, The concept of the bridi
John Brown: cmevla, cmevla
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
joigik
- as name for compound cmavo: The six types of logical connectives
- definition: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
joigiks
- connection types: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- syntax of: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
joik
- as name for compound cmavo: The six types of logical connectives
- definition: Non-logical connectives
joiks
- effect of "nai" on: More about non-logical connectives
- grouping: More about non-logical connectives
- syntax of: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- use of "se" in: Non-logical connectives
jokes: What is this book?
Jupiter life: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
juror number 5: Possessive sumti

K

kanji
- contrasted with alphabets and syllabaries: What about Chinese characters?
- representing based on romaji spelling: What about Chinese characters?
- representing based on strokes: What about Chinese characters?
katakana: Alien alphabets
Kate: cmevla
Katrina: cmevla
kept on too long: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
killing Jim: Types of event abstractions, Types of event abstractions
kissing Jane: Event abstraction
know: Predication/sentence abstraction
know who: Indirect questions
- contrasted with know that: Indirect questions
knowledge discursives: Discursives
- compared with propositional attitudes: Discursives
Korean: fu'ivla, fu'ivla
Kzinti
- communication with: Tentative conclusion

L

l-hyphen
- use of: fu'ivla
Láadan evidentials: Evidentials
Lady: cmevla
lambda calculus
- operator and operand distinction in: Miscellany
language shift
- based on name + "bu": Alien alphabets
- choice of Lojban-lerfu-word counterpart: Alien alphabets
- compound: Alien alphabets
- effect on following words: Alien alphabets
- formation of shift alphabet name: Alien alphabets
- interaction with "bu": Alien alphabets
- rationale for: Alien alphabets
- standardization of: Alien alphabets
large meal: Attitudinal modifiers
large-base decimal fraction
- expressing: Non-decimal and compound bases
latent component: Anomalous lujvo
Latin
- alphabet of Lojban: What's a letteral, anyway?
Latin alphabet: Orthography
- language shift word for: Alien alphabets
learning Lojban
- magnitude of task: gismu
left-grouping rule
- definition of: Three-part tanru grouping with bo
legal jargon
- example: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
legal system: Truth-value abstraction: jei
lemon tree: Simple tanru
Length × Width × Depth = Volume: Using Lojban resources within mekso
Lepidoptera: tanru
lerfu
- as assignable pro-sumti: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- contrasted with lerfu word: What's a letteral, anyway?
- definition: What's a letteral, anyway?
- reference to: References to lerfu
- referring to with "me'o": References to lerfu
lerfu as pro-sumti
- contrasted with ko'a-series in explicit assignment of: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- explicit assignment of antecedent: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- implicit assignment of antecedent: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
lerfu juxtaposition interpretation
- contrasted with mathematical interpretation: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
lerfu shift scope
- exception for mathematical texts: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
lerfu string
- as function name: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- as mathematical variable: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- as pro-sumti: lerfu words as pro-sumti
- - assumption of reference: lerfu words as pro-sumti
- as pro-sumti assigned by "goi": lerfu words as pro-sumti
- as quantifier: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- as selbri: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- as subscript: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- as utterance ordinal: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- definition: lerfu words as pro-sumti
- interpretation
- - contrasted with mathematical interpretation: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
lerfu strings
- as acronyms using "me": Acronyms
- as pro-sumti
- - for multiple sumti separated by boi: lerfu words as pro-sumti
- as quantifiers
- - avoiding interaction with sumti quantified: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- in mathematical expressions: Simple infix expressions and equations
- interpretation of contrasted with normal mathematical interpretation: Simple infix expressions and equations
- uses in mathematics: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- with numerical selbri: Special mekso selbri
lerfu word
- contrasted with lerfu: What's a letteral, anyway?
- for "'": A to Z in Lojban, plus one
lerfu word cmavo
- list of auxiliary: List of all auxiliary lerfu-word cmavo
lerfu word set extension
- with bu: The universal bu
lerfu words
- as a basis for acronym names: Acronyms
- composed of compound cmavo: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
- composed of single cmavo: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
- consonant words contrasted with vowel words: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
- effect of systematic formulation: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
- for consonants: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
- for vowels: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
- formation rules: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
- forming new for non-Lojban letters using "bu": Accent marks and compound lerfu words
- list of proposed
- - notation convention: Proposed lerfu words – introduction
- Lojban coverage requirement: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
- proposed for accent marks: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters
- proposed for Cyrillic alphabet: Proposed lerfu words for the Cyrillic alphabet
- proposed for diacritic marks: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters
- proposed for multiple letters: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters
- proposed for noisy environments: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication
- proposed for radio communication: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication
- table of Lojban: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
- using computer encoding schemes with "se'e": Computerized character codes
- vowel words contrasted with consonant words: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
lerfu words ending with "y"
- pause after
- - rationale: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
lerfu words for vowels
- pause requirement before: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
lerfu words with numeric digits
- grammar considerations: What about Chinese characters?
lervla
- contrasted with lerfu: What's a letteral, anyway?
less
- English word "less"
- - expressing with relative phrases: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
  - importance of relative phrase to: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
less than: Approximation and inexact numbers
- contrasted with more than
- - at least, at most: Approximation and inexact numbers
less than two: Approximation and inexact numbers
letter
- alphabet: What's a letteral, anyway?
- contrasted with word for the letter: What's a letteral, anyway?
letter encoding schemes
- application to lerfu words: Computerized character codes
letteral
- definition: What's a letteral, anyway?
letters
- non-Lojban
- - representation of diacritical marks on: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
  - representation with consonant-word + bu: Alien alphabets
  - representation with consonant-word + bu, drawback: Alien alphabets
  - representation with language-shift: Alien alphabets
  - representation with names: Alien alphabets
- sound contrasted with symbol for spelling: Alien alphabets
- symbol contrasted with sound for spelling: Alien alphabets
likes more than: Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison, Modal relative phrases; Comparison
lined up: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau
linguistic behavior: Predication/sentence abstraction
linguistic drift: What is this book?
linguistic drift in Lojban
- possible source of: Considerations for making lujvo
linked arguments: Questions and answers
linked sumti
- definition: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
- in tanru: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
linked sumti and FA tags: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
linked sumti and sumtcita: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
Linnaean names
- rules for: cmevla
lion in Africa: Descriptors for typical objects
lions in Africa: Individuals and masses
list: Non-logical connectives
- as a physical object: Non-logical connectives
- contrasted with sequence: Non-logical connectives
list of things to do: More about non-logical connectives
listen attentively: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
lists
- use of "tu'e"/"tu'u" in: More about non-logical connectives
literally: Miscellaneous indicators
living things: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
Livingston: Evidentials
LLG: Acknowledgements and credits
logic
- and attitudinals: What's wrong with this picture?
- limits of: What's wrong with this picture?
- resolving ambiguities of "nobody": What's wrong with this picture?
logic and Lojban
- more aspects: Conclusion
logical connection
- effect on elidability of "lo'o": Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- grouping strategies for complex cases contrasted: Grouping of afterthought connectives
- in abstractions
- - inner bridi contrasted with outer bridi: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
- in mathematical expressions: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- in tanru
- - contrasted with unconnected version: Logical connection within tanru
  - expandability of: Logical connection within tanru
  - grouping with bo: Logical connection within tanru
  - grouping with ke: Logical connection within tanru
- inside abstractions
- - contrasted with outside: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
- interaction with tenses: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- negation in connecting more than 2 sentences: More than two propositions
- of bridi-tail as opposed to tanru: Logical connection within tanru
- of bridi-tails
- - forethought: Multiple compound bridi
  - restriction on ke: Multiple compound bridi
- of forethought termsets: Termset logical connection
- of modals: Logical and non-logical connection of modals
- of more than 2 sentences
- - all or none: More than two propositions
  - forethought: More than two propositions
  - things to avoid: More than two propositions
- of observatives
- - relation of first places: Compound bridi
- of selbri: Compound bridi
- of sumti
- - grouping with parentheses: Grouping of afterthought connectives
  - restriction on ke: Grouping of afterthought connectives
- of tanru
- - caveat: Logical connection within tanru
- of tanru as opposed to bridi-tail: Logical connection within tanru
- termsets: Termset logical connection
- transformation between forms: sumti connection
- with "bo"
- - precedence: Grouping of afterthought connectives
logical connection of abstractors: Abstractor connection and connection within abstractions
logical connection of more than 2 sentences
- mixed "and" and "or": More than two propositions
logical connectives: Logical connection and truth tables
- associative: More than two propositions
- bridi-tail connection: Compound bridi
- cmavo
- - format for each selma'o: The six types of logical connectives
- effect on elidability of "ge'u" from preceding relative phrase: Relative phrases
- equivalence relation on 3 sentences: More than two propositions
- grouping with "bo": Grouping of afterthought connectives
- in tanru: Logical connection within tanru
- more than 2 sentences: More than two propositions
- negated first sentence as a potential problem for understanding: Forethought bridi connection
- non-associative: More than two propositions
- observative sentence connection: Compound bridi
- pairing from left: More than two propositions
- rationale for multiple sets in grammar: The six types of logical connectives
- recipes
- - simplified for logic chapter discussion: bridi negation and logical connectives
- relation to truth functions: The four basic vowels
- relative precedence with "me'u": selbri based on sumti: me
- right-grouping with bo: Grouping of afterthought connectives
- selma'o
- - enumerated: The six types of logical connectives
- syntax rules summary: Rules for making logical and non-logical connectives
- table by truth function value: Truth functions and corresponding logical connectives
- tensed: Tensed logical connectives
logical connectives and bridi negation: bridi negation and logical connectives
logical connectives and negation
- caveat for logic chapter discussions: bridi negation and logical connectives
logical connectives in tanru: Logical connection within tanru
- ambiguity of: Logical connection within tanru
- effect on formal logical manipulations: Logical connection within tanru
- effect on tanru grouping: Logical connection within tanru
- usefulness of: Logical connection within tanru
logical connectives within negation
- effects of expansion on: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
logical language
- truth functions: Logical connection and truth tables
Logical Language Group
- example: lujvo-making examples
- relation to Lojban: What is Lojban?
logical variables
- creating more by subscripting: A few notes on variables
- effect of global substitution: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- effect of order in prenex: Universal claims
- effect of using multiple different: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- explicitly placing in outer prenex: The problem of “any”
- for selbri: selbri variables
- implicit placement in smallest enclosing bridi prenex: The problem of “any”
- notation convention: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- when not in main bridi: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- with "poi"
- - in multiple appearances: Dropping the prenex
- with "ro"
- - in multiple appearances: Dropping the prenex
- with multiple appearances in bridi: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
logically connected sentences
- and DeMorgan's Law: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
logically connected tenses
- definition: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- expansion to sentences: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
- with JA: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
Loglan: Informal bibliography
logograms
- words for: The universal bu
Lojban
- features of: What is Lojban?
- history of: What is Lojban?
- stability of: What is this book?
Lojban alphabet: Orthography
Lojban letters
- IPA for pronouncing: Basic phonetics
- list with IPA pronunciation: Basic phonetics
Lojbanistan: What is this book?
long ago and far away: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
long rafsi
- definition: rafsi
long rafsi form
- compared with short form in effect on lujvo meaning: lujvo
long-sword: lujvo with more than two parts.
loose association
- expressing with "pe": Relative phrases
Lord: cmevla
love more: Property abstractions
lower case letters
- use in Lojban: Upper and lower cases
lower-case
- lerfu word for: Upper and lower cases
lower-case letters
- English usage contrasted with Lojban: Upper and lower cases
- Lojban usage contrasted with English: Upper and lower cases
lower-case word
- effect on following lerfu words: Upper and lower cases
lujvo
- "zi'o" rafsi effect on place structure of: lujvo based on pro-sumti
- abbreviated: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau
- abstract: Abstract lujvo
- algorithm for: The lujvo-making algorithm
- and consonant pairs: rafsi
- and plausibility: Considerations for making lujvo
- and seltau/tertau relationship: The meaning of lujvo
- and the listener: Considerations for making lujvo
- as a subtype of brivla: brivla
- as suppliers of agent place: Notes on gismu place structures
- asymmetrical: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
- based on multiple tanru: Considerations for making lujvo
- cmavo incorporation: Why have lujvo?
- comparatives: Comparatives and superlatives
- compared with tanru: Why have lujvo?
- consideration in choosing meaning for: Considerations for making lujvo
- considerations for retaining elements of: Considerations for making lujvo
- construction of: lujvo
- definition
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
- design consideration for relationship: The meaning of lujvo
- dropping elements of: Considerations for making lujvo
- dropping SE rafsi: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau
- examples of making: The lujvo scoring algorithm
- from cmavo with no rafsi: rafsi
- from tanru: lujvo
- fully reduced: rafsi
- guidelines for place structure: Why have lujvo?
- interpreting: The meaning of lujvo
- invention of: lujvo
- meaning drift of: Considerations for making lujvo
- meaning of: lujvo
- multiple forms of: lujvo
- place structure of figurative lujvo: Miscellaneous indicators
- pro-sumti rafsi effect on place structure of: lujvo based on pro-sumti
- quick-tour version: Examples of brivla
- rationale for: Why have lujvo?
- recognizing: rafsi
- rules for formation of: lujvo
- scored examples of: The lujvo scoring algorithm
- scoring of: The lujvo-making algorithm
- selection of best form of: The lujvo-making algorithm
- shorter for more general concepts: Considerations for making lujvo
- summary of form characteristics: rafsi
- superlatives: Comparatives and superlatives
- symmetrical: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
- ultimate guideline for choice of meaning/place-structure: Considerations for making lujvo
- unambiguity of: Considerations for making lujvo
- unambiguous decomposition of: lujvo
- unreduced: rafsi
- unsuitability of for concrete/specific terms and jargon: fu'ivla
- with zei: rafsi
lujvo creation
- interaction of KE with NAhE: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- interaction of KE with SE: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- use of multiple SE in: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
lujvo form
- consonant cluster requirement in: rafsi
- final letter of: rafsi
- hierarchy of priorities for selection of: The lujvo scoring algorithm
- number of letters in: rafsi
- requirements for hyphen insertion in: rafsi
- requirements for n-hyphen insertion in: rafsi
- requirements for r-hyphen insertion in: rafsi
- requirements for y-hyphen insertion in: rafsi
lujvo place order: Ordering lujvo places.
- asymmetrical lujvo: Ordering lujvo places.
- based on 3-or-more part veljvo: lujvo with more than two parts.
- comparatives: Comparatives and superlatives
- rationale for standardization: Ordering lujvo places.
- superlatives: Comparatives and superlatives
- superlatives as exceptions: Comparatives and superlatives
- symmetrical lujvo: Ordering lujvo places.
lujvo place structure
- "ni" lujvo: Abstract lujvo
- "nu" lujvo: Abstract lujvo
- basis of: Selecting places
- comparative lujvo: Comparatives and superlatives
- cross-dependent places: Dependent places
- dependent places: Dependent places
- dropping "KE": Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- dropping "KEhE": Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
- dropping cross-dependent places: Dependent places
- dropping dependent places
- - caveat: Dependent places
- dropping dependent seltau places: Dependent places
- dropping dependent tertau places: Dependent places
- dropping redundant places: The meaning of lujvo
- effect of "SE": Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
- effect of "SE"-dropping in tertau: Eliding SE rafsi from tertau
- explicated walk-through: The meaning of lujvo
- guidelines: Why have lujvo?
- multi-place abstraction lujvo: Abstract lujvo
- notation conventions: The meaning of lujvo
- rationale for standardization: Selecting places
- selecting tertau: Dependent places
- superlatives: Comparatives and superlatives
- when first place redundant with non-first: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
- when first places redundant: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
- when first places redundant plus others: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
lukewarm food: sumti qualifiers

M

magic square: Vectors and matrices
male sexual teacher
- example: lujvo-making examples
man biting dog: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
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
marathon: Types of event abstractions
Mars road
- example: Conversion: SE
mass
- compared with set as abstract of multiple individuals: Masses and sets
- contrasted with ordered sequence: Non-logical connectives
- contrasted with set in attribution of component properties: Masses and sets
- contrasted with set in distribution of properties: Non-logical connectives
- expressing measurement standard for indefinites: Special mekso selbri
- expressing relation with individuals forming: Special mekso selbri
- expressing relation with set forming: Special mekso selbri
- joining elements into a mass: Non-logical connectives
mass contrasted with components
- in properties of: Non-logical connectives
mass name
- use of: Individuals and masses
mass object
- and logical reasoning: Individuals and masses
- as dependent on intention: Individuals and masses
- contrasted with multiple individual objects: Individuals and masses
- properties of: Individuals and masses
mass objects
- peculiarities of English translation of: Individuals and masses
masses
- rule for implicit outer quantifier: Quantified descriptions
mathematical equality
- expressing: Simple infix expressions and equations
mathematical expression
- referring to: Other uses of mekso
mathematical expressions
- connectives in: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- implicit quantifier for: Number summary
- tensed connection in: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
mathematical expressions in tanru: Other kinds of simple selbri
mathematical intervals: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
mathematical notation
- and omitted operators: Introductory
- and operator precedence: Simple infix expressions and equations
- infix: Simple infix expressions and equations
- international uniqueness of: Introductory
mathematical operators: Simple infix expressions and equations
mathematical texts
- effect on lerfu shift scope: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
mathematical variables
- lerfu strings as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
mathematics
- use of lerfu strings in: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
matrices
- use as operands: Vectors and matrices
- use of parentheses with: Vectors and matrices
matrix
- as combination of vectors: Vectors and matrices
- definition: Vectors and matrices
- with "ge'a" for more than 2 rows/columns: Vectors and matrices
- with more than 2 dimensions: Vectors and matrices
matrix column operator: Vectors and matrices
matrix row operator: Vectors and matrices
Mayan mathematics
- as a system with base larger than 16: Non-decimal and compound bases
measurements
- expressing: Simple infix expressions and equations
meat slice: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
medieval weapon: lujvo with more than two parts.
mei
- place structure formed for objective indefinites: Special mekso selbri
mekso
- and literary translation: Four score and seven: a mekso problem
- complex used as quantifier: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- design goals: Introductory
mekso chapter
- completeness: Introductory
- table notation convention: Introductory
mekso goal
- coverage: Introductory
- expandable: Introductory
- for common use: Introductory
- for mathematical writing: Introductory
- precision: Introductory
- unambiguous: Introductory
mekso goals
- and ambiguity: Introductory
- and non-mathematical expression: Introductory
- mathematical notation form: Introductory
melting: Notes on gismu place structures
membership
- property of sets: Masses and sets
mental activity: Predication/sentence abstraction
mental discomfort
- example: Emotional categories
metalinguistic comment
- with embedded discursive: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
metalinguistic levels: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
metalinguistic levels or reference: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
metalinguistic pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary
- implicit quantifier for: Pro-sumti summary
metalinguistic words
- quick-tour version: Indicators
mice: Minor abstraction types
minutes
- example of timestamp: Non-decimal and compound bases
misinterpretation: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
Mitsubishi: What about Chinese characters?
mixed claim
- definition: Universal claims
mixed modal connection
- afterthought: Mixed modal connection
- as proscribed in forethought: Mixed modal connection
- definition: Mixed modal connection
- of bridi-tails: Mixed modal connection
- of sentences: Mixed modal connection
- of sumti: Mixed modal connection
mixed with: Non-logical connectives
modal bridi-tail connection: Other modal connections
modal causals
- implication differences: Modal sentence connection: the causals
modal cmavo
- basis in gismu place structure: Complete table of BAI cmavo with rough English equivalents
- position relative to selbri: Tenses and bridi negation
- regular form for derivation: CV'V cmavo of selma'o BAI with irregular forms
- table with English equivalents: Complete table of BAI cmavo with rough English equivalents
modal cmavo table
- format of: Complete table of BAI cmavo with rough English equivalents
modal connection
- simultaneous with logical: Mixed modal connection
modal connection of selbri
- using bridi-tail modal connection: Other modal connections
modal connectives
- fi'o prohibited in: Other modal connections
modal conversion
- access to original first place with fai: Modal conversion: JAI
- grammar of: Modal conversion: JAI
- place structure of: Modal conversion: JAI
- with no modal specified: Modal conversion: JAI
modal conversion with fi'o: Modal conversion: JAI
modal conversion without modal
- as vague: Modal conversion: JAI
modal conversions
- in descriptions: Modal conversion: JAI
modal followed by selbri
- compared with tanru modification in meaning: Modal selbri
- contrasted with tanru modification in grammar: Modal selbri
- effect on eliding cu: Modal selbri
modal operand connection: Other modal connections
modal place
- definition: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- on description selbri: Modal tags: BAI
- rationale for term name: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- relation of to selbri: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
modal place relation
- importance of first place in: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
modal sentence connection: Modal sentence connection: the causals
- condensing: Other modal connections
- effect on modal: Modal sentence connection: the causals
- forethought: Other modal connections
- relation to modal of first sentence in: Modal sentence connection: the causals
- relation to modal of second sentence in: Modal sentence connection: the causals
- table of equivalent schemata: Tenses versus modals
- with other than causals: Modal sentence connection: the causals
modal sumti
- and FA marking: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- as first place of modal tag selbri: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- definition (see also seltcita sumti): Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- effect on place structure: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- leaving vague: Modal selbri
- position in bridi: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- unspecified: Modal selbri
modal sumti connection: Other modal connections
modal tag
- definition (see also sumtcita): Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- fi'o with selbri as: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- for vague relationship: Modal tags: BAI
modal tags
- contrasted with English prepositions in preciseness: Modal tags: BAI
- short forms as BAI cmavo: Modal tags: BAI
modal tags and sumtcita: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
modal-or-tense question
- with "cu'e": Tense questions: cu'e
modal-or-tense questions
- pre-specifying some information: Tense questions: cu'e
modals
- compared with tenses in syntax: Tenses versus modals
- contradictory negation of: Modal negation
- contrasted with tenses in semantics: Tenses versus modals
- expanding scope over inner modal connection: Modal selbri
- expanding scope over logical connection with ke ... ke'e: Modal selbri
- expanding scope over multiple sentences with tu'e…tu'u: Modal selbri
- expanding scope over non-logical connection: Modal selbri
- for causal gismu: Modal sentence connection: the causals
- importance of 1st sumti place for sumtcita use: Tenses versus modals
- improving relative phrase preciseness with : Modal relative phrases; Comparison
- making long-scope: Sticky modals
- making sticky: Sticky modals
- negation of: Modal negation
- scalar negation of: Modal negation
- termset connection: Other modal connections
modals often attached with relative phrases
- list: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
modifier
- seltau as: Simple tanru
modifying brivla (see also seltau): lujvo
Mon Repos: Dependent places
more
- English word "more"
- - expressing with relative phrases: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
  - importance of relative phrase to: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
more than: Approximation and inexact numbers
- contrasted with less than
- - at least, at most: Approximation and inexact numbers
more than two: Approximation and inexact numbers
morphology
- conventions for: Introductory
- definition: Introductory
- derivational: Introductory
- simplicity of: Introductory
- symbolic conventions for discussing: Introductory
mother father: lujvo
movement
- order in tense constructs: Movement in space: MOhI
- time: Movement in space: MOhI
- with multiple directions: Movement in space: MOhI
movement specification
- interaction with direction in tenses: Movement in space: MOhI
movie
- example of going to
- - office: example: Tagging places: FA
multiple "ma"
- as multiple questions: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo
multiple "mo"
- as multiple questions: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo
multiple compound bridi
- restriction on "ke": Multiple compound bridi
multiple conversion
- avoiding: Conversion: SE
- effect of ordering: Conversion: SE
multiple indefinite sumti
- effect of re-ordering in sentence: Grouping of quantifiers
- expressing with equal scope: Grouping of quantifiers
- meaning: Grouping of quantifiers
multiple indefinite sumti scope
- in termset: Grouping of quantifiers
multiple indicators: The uses of indicators
multiple individual objects
- contrasted with mass object: Individuals and masses
- meaning of: Individuals and masses
multiple letters
- proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for some accent marks and multiple letters
multiple logical connectives
- within tanru: Logical connection within tanru
multiple quantification
- effect on selbri placement among sumti: Using naku outside a prenex
multiple questions in one bridi
- expressing: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo
multiple relative clauses
- attaching with "zi'e": Multiple relative clauses: zi'e
- connecting different kinds with "zi'e": Multiple relative clauses: zi'e
multiple speakers: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
multiple sumti in one place
- avoiding: Tagging places: FA
multiple tanru inversion
- effect on grouping: Inversion of tanru: co
multiple tenses
- effect of order in sentence: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
my: Possessive sumti
my chair: Multiple relative clauses: zi'e
myth
- example: Evidentials

N

n people: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
n-hyphen
- contrasted with r-hyphen in requirements for use: rafsi
- use of: lujvo, rafsi
nai
- effect on intervals: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
name equivalent for typical
- rationale for lack of: Descriptors for typical objects
name words
- recognition of: Lojban names
name-words
- permissible consonant combinations: Lojban names
names
- algorithm for: cmevla
- as possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
- assigning with "goi": Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- authority for: cmevla
- borrowing from other languages: Lojban names
- examples of: cmevla
- from Lojban words: cmevla
- in vocative phrase: Lojban names
- multiple: Lojban names
- pause requirement in lerfu words: The universal bu
- purpose of: cmevla
- quick-tour version: Words that can act as sumti
- rationale for lojbanizing: cmevla
- rules for: cmevla
- rules for formation: cmevla
- stress in: cmevla, cmevla
- two kinds of: Lojban names
- unusual stress in: cmevla
- uses of: Lojban names
- using rafsi: Lojban names
- with LA descriptor: Lojban names
names from vowel-final base
- commonly used consonant endings: Lojban names
names in Lojban (see also cmevla): cmevla
names with la
- implicit quantifier for: Lojban names
naming predicate: The three basic description types
NATO: Acronyms
natural end
- continuing beyond: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- contrasted with actual stop: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
Navajo
- example: fu'ivla
near the faraway park: Tenses as sumtcita
near the park: Tenses as sumtcita
nearby in time: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
need any box: The problem of “any”
negated intervals
- meaning of: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
negating a forethought-connected bridi-tail pair: Multiple compound bridi
negating a forethought-connected sentence pair: Multiple compound bridi
negating a sentence
- and truth value: Logical connection and truth tables
negation
- complex examples: Scalar negation of selbri
- form for emulating natural language negation: Using naku outside a prenex
- of operand: Miscellany
- of operator: Miscellany
- of tenses: Tense negation
negation and logical connectives
- caveat for logic chapter discussions: bridi negation and logical connectives
negation between sentences
- compared with bridi negation: bridi negation and logical connectives
- meaning of: bridi negation and logical connectives
negation boundary
- and zero: Negation boundaries
- effect of moving: Negation boundaries
negation cmavo
- position relative to selbri: Tenses and bridi negation
negation in prenex
- effects of position: Negation boundaries
negation manipulation
- "na" contrasted with "naku" in difficulty of: Using naku outside a prenex
- "naku" contrasted with "na" in difficulty of: Using naku outside a prenex
negation of 'fi'o'-modals
- by negating selbri: Modal negation
negation of modals: Modal negation
- contradictory: Modal negation
- scalar: Modal negation
negation of tenses
- meaning of: Tense negation
negation sumti qualifiers
- meanings of: sumti qualifiers
negations with logical connectives
- effects on expansion of sentence: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
negative answer
- quick-tour version: Questions
negative numbers
- expressing: Signs and numerical punctuation
negative sign
- contrasted with subtraction operator: Special numbers
negator
- movement from bridi to sumti: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
new notation: The meaning of lujvo
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
nobody
- ambiguous interpretations of: What's wrong with this picture?
- interpretation of: What's wrong with this picture?
- Lojban contrasted with English: What's wrong with this picture?
noisy environments
- proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication
non-logical connection
- and elidability of terminators: Non-logical connectives
- in mathematical expressions: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- in tanru
- - distinguishing from connection of sumti: Non-logical connectives
- of individuals into mass: Non-logical connectives
- of individuals into set: Non-logical connectives
- of modals: Logical and non-logical connection of modals
- of operands: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- of operators: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- of sumti
- - distinguishing from connection in tanru: Non-logical connectives
- of termsets: More about non-logical connectives
non-logical connectives
- effect of "nai" on: More about non-logical connectives
- grouping: More about non-logical connectives
- including tense: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- intervals: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- ordered intervals: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- sentence: More about non-logical connectives
- syntax rules summary: Rules for making logical and non-logical connectives
- un-ordered intervals: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- within tanru: Logical connection within tanru
non-logical forethought termsets
- connecting tagged sumti: More about non-logical connectives
non-logically connected tenses: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
non-Lojban quotation: Quotation summary
non-Lojban text
- rules for pause with: Rules for inserting pauses
non-restrictive relative clause
- definition (see also incidental relative clause): Incidental relative clauses
non-specific descriptions: The three basic description types
non-standard orthographies
- caveat: Oddball orthographies
- Cyrillic: Oddball orthographies
- Tengwar: Oddball orthographies
- zbalermorna: Oddball orthographies
nonagenarian: Comparatives and superlatives
normal circumstances: Event abstraction
notation conventions
- for Quick Tour chapter: The concept of the bridi
nothing sits: Negation boundaries
nouns
- brivla as Lojban equivalents: brivla
Nth rat: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
nth rat: Special mekso selbri
Nthly: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
null operand
- for infix operations with too few operands: Infix operators revisited
null operator
- for infix operations with too many operands: Infix operators revisited
number article
- explanation of use: Simple infix expressions and equations
number questions: Number questions
- answers to: Number questions
number sumti
- syntax of: Number summary
- with "li": Number summary
- with "li" contrasted with "me'o": Number summary
- with "me'o": Number summary
- with "me'o" contrasted with "li": Number summary
number words
- pattern in: Lojban numbers
numbers
- as compound cmavo: Lojban numbers
- as grammatically complete utterances: Number questions
- as possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
- cmavo as Lojban equivalents: cmavo
- English contrasted with Lojban on exactness: Variables with generalized quantifiers
- expressing simple: Lojban numbers
- greater than 9: Lojban numbers
- implicit quantifier for: Number summary
- list of indefinite: Complete table of PA cmavo: digits, punctuation, and other numbers
- list of special: Complete table of PA cmavo: digits, punctuation, and other numbers
- Lojban contrasted with English on exactness: Variables with generalized quantifiers
- on logical variables: Variables with generalized quantifiers
- rafsi for: rafsi
- special: Special numbers
- talking about contrasted with using for quantification: Simple infix expressions and equations
- using for quantification contrasted with talking about: Simple infix expressions and equations
numeric digits in lerfu words
- grammar considerations: What about Chinese characters?
numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation
- undefined: Special numbers
numerical selbri
- alternative to compensate for restriction on numbers: Special mekso selbri
- based on non-numerical sumti: Special mekso selbri
- complex: Special mekso selbri
- grammar: Special mekso selbri
- restriction on numbers used for: Special mekso selbri
- special: Special mekso selbri
- - with lerfu strings: Special mekso selbri
- use of "me" with: Special mekso selbri
numerical tenses
- effect on use of "boi": Other uses of mekso
NYC: Acronyms

O

O
- notation convention for logical connectives: The four basic vowels
observation: Evidentials
observation evidential
- contrasted with observative : Evidentials
observative
- contrasted with observation evidential: Evidentials
- definition: Standard bridi form: cu
observative form
- contrasted with command: Standard bridi form: cu
observative with elided CAhA
- convention: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
observatives
- and abstractions: The syntax of abstraction
- quick-tour version: Variant bridi structure
ocean shell: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
octal system
- specifying numbers in (see also base): Non-decimal and compound bases
octogenarian: Comparatives and superlatives
of
- English word "of"
- - compared with "do'e": Modal tags: BAI
Old McDonald: The special Lojban characters
old topic: Paragraphs: NIhO
omission of descriptor
- effect on ku: Indefinite descriptions
omitting terminators
- perils of: Scalar negation of selbri
on right
- contrasted with toward right: Movement in space: MOhI
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: cmevla
one-third of food: Special mekso selbri
only: Discursives, Discursives, Discursives, Discursives
only if
- compared with English "if … then": Logical connection of bridi
only once: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
open interval: Interval connectives and forethought non-logical connection
- expressed with "mi'i": Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
operand
- converting from operator: Miscellany
- converting into operator: Miscellany
- converting selbri into: Using Lojban resources within mekso
- converting sumti into: Using Lojban resources within mekso
operand connection
- afterthought: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- forethought: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
operand modal connection: Other modal connections
operands
- connecting: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- contrasted with general sumti: Simple infix expressions and equations
- too few for infix operation: Infix operators revisited
- too many for infix operation: Infix operators revisited
operator
- converting from operand: Miscellany
- converting into operand: Miscellany
- converting into selbri: Other uses of mekso
- converting selbri into: Using Lojban resources within mekso
operator connection
- afterthought: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- forethought: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
operator derived from selbri
- effect of selbri place structure on: Using Lojban resources within mekso
operator left-right grouping
- as Lojban default: Simple infix expressions and equations
operator precedence
- and mathematical notation: Simple infix expressions and equations
- effect of pragmatic convention: Simple infix expressions and equations
- generalized explicit specification: Simple infix expressions and equations
- in Lojban default: Simple infix expressions and equations
- plans for future: Explicit operator precedence
- rationale for default left-grouping: Simple infix expressions and equations
- scope modification with "bi'e": Simple infix expressions and equations
- specifying by parenthesis: Simple infix expressions and equations
operator precedence in other languages: Simple infix expressions and equations
operators
- analogue of tanru in: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- connecting: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- list of simple: Complete table of VUhU cmavo, with operand structures
operators of VUhU
- grammar of operands: Simple infix expressions and equations
opinion: Evidentials
opposite-of-minus: Miscellany
or
- English "and/or" contrasted with "either … or … but not both": Logical connection and truth tables
order of variables
- in moving to prenex: Variables with generalized quantifiers
ordered sequence
- by listing members: Non-logical connectives
- contrasted with mass: Non-logical connectives
- contrasted with set: Non-logical connectives
ordinal selbri
- definition: Special mekso selbri
- place structure: Special mekso selbri
- place structure effect from subjective numbers: Special mekso selbri
ordinal tense: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
orthography
- non-standard: Oddball orthographies
- relation to pronunciation: Orthography
outer product: Vectors and matrices
outer quantifier
- contrasted with inner quantifier: Quantified descriptions
- definition: Quantified descriptions
- effect of on meaning: Quantified descriptions
- implicit on descriptors: Quantified descriptions
- in indefinite description: Indefinite descriptions
outer quantifiers
- for expressing subsets: Quantified descriptions
- rationale for differences in implicit quantifier on descriptors: Quantified descriptions
outer sumti
- prenex for referring to from within relative clause within relative clause: Relative clauses within relative clauses
- referring to from within relative clause within relative clause: Relative clauses within relative clauses
owe money: Multiple compound bridi

P

paragraph separation
- spoken text: Paragraphs: NIhO
- written text: Paragraphs: NIhO
paragraphs
- effects on scope: Paragraphs: NIhO
- separator: Paragraphs: NIhO
parasitic worms
- example: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
parentheses
- for complex mekso used as quantifier: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
parenthesis
- mathematical: Simple infix expressions and equations
partial quotation: Miscellaneous indicators
parts of speech: Introductory
passive voice: Varying the order of sumti
past event
- possible extension into present: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
pastward
- as a spatial tense: Dimensionality: VIhA
paternal grandmother
- example: lujvo
pausative event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
pause
- and cmevla: Rules for inserting pauses
- and consonant-final words: Rules for inserting pauses
- and Cy-form cmavo: Rules for inserting pauses
- and final-syllable stress: Rules for inserting pauses
- and non-Lojban text: Rules for inserting pauses
- and vowel-initial words: Rules for inserting pauses
- between words: Rules for inserting pauses
- contrasted with stop: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- contrasted with syllable break: The special Lojban characters
- proscribed within words: Rules for inserting pauses
- representation of in Lojban: The special Lojban characters
- requirement between stressed syllables: cmavo
- symbol for: The universal bu
- word for: The universal bu
pauses
- before vowels: cmavo
- rules for: Rules for inserting pauses
peace symbol: Computerized character codes
percent
- as numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation
perils of omitting terminators: Scalar negation of selbri
period
- definition of: The special Lojban characters
- example of: The special Lojban characters
- optional: The special Lojban characters
- quick-tour version: Pronunciation
- within a word: The special Lojban characters
Persian rug: rafsi
person's arm: Relative phrases
personal pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary
- implicit cancellation of by change of speaker/listener: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
- implicit quantifier for: Pro-sumti summary
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
personal pronouns
- with ko'a-series for he/she/it/they: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- with mi-series for I/you: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
personal pronouns for he/she/it/they
- English contrasted with Lojban in organization: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
Pete: cmevla
Pheidippides: Types of event abstractions
phonetic alphabet: Basic phonetics
Phonetic Alphabet
- proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication
physical distress
- example: Emotional categories
piano-moving: Individuals and masses
pictures
- credits for: Acknowledgements and credits
pinyin
- as a basis for Chinese characters in Lojban lerfu words: What about Chinese characters?
piro
- explanation of meaning: Quantified descriptions
pisu'o
- explanation of meaning: Quantified descriptions
place of eating: Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
place structure
- adding new places to with modal sumti: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- definition: Introductory
- definition of: The concept of the bridi
- effect of FA on: Tagging places: FA
- effect of modal conversion on: Modal conversion: JAI
- empty slots in: Introductory
- explicitly mapping sumti to place with FA: Tagging places: FA
- gismu: Notes on gismu place structures
- instability of: Introductory
- leaving a sumti place unspecified in with zo'e: Standard bridi form: cu
- notation conventions: Introductory
- re-ordering by conversion: Conversion of simple selbri
place structure and tanru inversion: Inversion of tanru: co
place structure of selbri
- determining: Introductory
place structure order
- effect of FA on: Tagging places: FA
place structure questions: Tagging places: FA
place structures
- omitting places with FA: Tagging places: FA
- omitting places with zo'e: Standard bridi form: cu
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
plants
- use of fu'ivla for specific: fu'ivla
plausibility
- in abbreviated lujvo: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau
playgrounds: Dependent places
pleases: The sumti di'u and la'e di'u
plural
- Lojban equivalent of: Approximation and inexact numbers
plural masses
- possible use for: Quantified descriptions
plurals
- Lojban contrasted with English in necessity of marking: The three basic description types
plurals with le
- meaning of: Individuals and masses
point
- event considered as: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
point-event abstraction
- place structure: Types of event abstractions
point-event abstractions
- definition: Types of event abstractions
- related tense contours: Event-type abstractors and event contour tenses
point-event abstractor: Types of event abstractions
pointing
- reference by: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
pointing cmavo
- quick-tour version: Words that can act as sumti
police lineup: Number questions
Polish notation
- and mekso goals: Introductory
Polish notation mixed with infix: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- example: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
politeness
- thank you and you're welcome: Vocative scales
- you're welcome: Vocative scales, Vocative scales
portion
- on set contrasted with on individual: Quantified descriptions
portion selbri
- definition: Special mekso selbri
- place structure: Special mekso selbri
- place structure effect from subjective numbers: Special mekso selbri
positive numbers
- explicit expression: Signs and numerical punctuation
positive sign
- contrasted with addition operator: Simple infix expressions and equations
possessed in relative phrases
- compared with possessor: Relative phrases
possession
- expressing with "po": Relative phrases
- intrinsic
- - expressing with po'e: Relative phrases
- Lojban usage compared with French and German in omission/inclusion: Relative phrases
- Lojban usage contrasted with English in omission/inclusion: Relative phrases
- quick-tour version: Possession
possession not ownership
- quick-tour version: Possession
possessive sumti
- compared with relative phrase: Possessive sumti
- contrasted with relative phrases in complexity allowed: Possessive sumti
- definition: Possessive sumti
- effect on elidability of ku: Possessive sumti
- relative clauses on: Possessive sumti
- syntax allowed: Possessive sumti
- with relative clauses on possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
possessive sumti and relative clauses
- development history: Possessive sumti
possessive sumti with relative clauses
- effect of placement: Possessive sumti
possessor in relative phrases
- compared with possessed: Relative phrases
possessor sumti
- definition: Possessive sumti
potential
- expressing in past/future: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
potential events
- expressing implicitly: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
prayer: Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places., Ordering lujvo places.
precedence
- mathematical default: Simple infix expressions and equations
precise erasures: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
predicate answers: Questions and answers
predication
- as a relationship: The concept of the bridi
- compared with bridi: The concept of the bridi
Preem Palver: Other kinds of simple selbri
pregnant sister: Discursives, Discursives
prenex
- considerations for dropping: Dropping the prenex
- dropping for terseness: Dropping the prenex
- effect of order of variables in: Dropping the prenex
- explanation: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- internal to a bridi: The problem of “any”
- purpose of: Dropping the prenex
- removing when numeric quantifiers present: Variables with generalized quantifiers
- syntax of: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
- use for outer sumti reference: Relative clauses within relative clauses
prenex manipulation
- exporting "na" from left of prenex: bridi negation and logical connectives
- importing "na" from selbri: bridi negation and logical connectives
- moving "naku" past bound variable: bridi negation and logical connectives
- rules: bridi negation and logical connectives
prenex scope
- for sentences joined by ".i": A few notes on variables
- for sentences joined by ijeks: A few notes on variables
- in abstractions: A few notes on variables
- in embedded bridi: A few notes on variables
- in relative clauses: A few notes on variables
- informal: A few notes on variables
prepositions
- cmavo as Lojban equivalents: cmavo
pretty
- English ambiguity of: Complex tanru grouping
pretty little girls' school
- forty ways: “Pretty little girls' school” : forty ways to say it
previous topic: Paragraphs: NIhO
pride of lions: Using Lojban resources within mekso
primitive roots
- gismu as: brivla
principle of consistency
- of logical-if statements: Logical connection of bridi
pro-bridi
- as abbreviation for bridi: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- broda-series: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- compared to pro-sumti as means of abbreviation: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
- definition: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
- overriding sumti of antecedent bridi for: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- scope effect of new paragraph: Paragraphs: NIhO
pro-bridi assignment
- "no'i" effect on: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
- explicit cancellation of with "da'o": Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
pro-bridi rafsi
- as producing context-dependent meanings: lujvo based on pro-sumti
pro-sumti
- and discursive utterances: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
- as possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
- classes of: Pro-sumti summary
- compared to pro-bridi as means of abbreviation: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
- compared to pronouns in usage as abbreviations: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
- contrasted with description: The five kinds of simple sumti
- definition: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
- di'u-series: Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series
- for listener(s): Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
- for listeners and/or speakers and/or others: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
- for relativized sumti in relative clauses: Relativized pro-sumti: ke'a
- for speaker(s): Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
- implicit quantifier for: Pro-sumti summary
- ko'a-series: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- lerfu as: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
- lerfu string
- - effect on reference to lerfu itself: References to lerfu
- lerfu strings
- - interaction with quantifiers and boi: lerfu words as pro-sumti
- mi-series: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
- quick-tour version: Words that can act as sumti
- rafsi for: lujvo based on pro-sumti
- referring to place of different bridi with go'i-series: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
- referring to place of same bridi with vo'a-series: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
- scope effect of new paragraph: Paragraphs: NIhO
- series: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
- ti-series: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
- typical: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
- unspecified: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
- vo'a-series: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
pro-sumti assignment
- "no'i" effect on: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
- explicit cancellation of with "da'o": Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
pro-sumti for "we"
- contrasted with English "we": Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
pro-sumti for speaker/listener/others
- as masses: Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
- relation to "joi": Personal pro-sumti: the mi-series
pro-sumti for utterances: Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series
pro-sumti rafsi
- anticipated use of for abbreviating inconvenient forms: lujvo based on pro-sumti
- effect of on place structure of lujvo: lujvo based on pro-sumti
probability .5: Special mekso selbri
probability selbri
- definition: Special mekso selbri
- place structure: Special mekso selbri
- place structure effect from subjective numbers: Special mekso selbri
- values: Special mekso selbri
process abstraction
- place structure: Types of event abstractions
process abstractions
- definition: Types of event abstractions
- related tense contours: Event-type abstractors and event contour tenses
process abstractor: Types of event abstractions
process event
- described: Types of event abstractions
pronouncement: Evidentials
pronouns
- as anaphora: Anaphoric pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ri-series and the go'i-series
- compared to pro-sumti in usage as abbreviations: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
pronouns in English
- as independent of abbreviations: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
- as noun abbreviations: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
pronunciation
- IPA for Lojban: Basic phonetics
- quick-tour version: Pronunciation
- relation to orthography: Orthography
- standard: Basic phonetics
properties
- place structure: Property abstractions
property abstraction
- specifying sumti place of property with "ce'u": Abstraction focus pro-sumti: ce'u
property abstractions
- specifying determining place by sumti ellipsis: Property abstractions
- specifying determining place with "ce'u": Property abstractions
- sumti ellipsis in: Property abstractions
- use of multiple "ce'u" for relationship abstraction: Property abstractions
property of loving: Property abstractions
proposed law: Eliding SE rafsi from seltau
proposed lerfu words
- as working basis: Proposed lerfu words – introduction
propositional
- of attitudinals: Propositional attitude indicators
propositional attitudes: Predication/sentence abstraction
- compared with knowledge discursives: Discursives
protocol
- computer communications using COI: Vocative scales
- parliamentary using COI: Vocative scales
- using vocatives: Vocative scales
punctuation
- in numbers: Signs and numerical punctuation
- list of numerical: Complete table of PA cmavo: digits, punctuation, and other numbers
punctuation lerfu words
- interaction with different alphabet systems: Punctuation marks
- mechanism for creating: Punctuation marks
- rationale for "lau": Punctuation marks
punctuation marks
- cmavo as Lojban equivalents: cmavo

Q

quack: Alien alphabets
quadratic formula: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
qualified sumti
- contrasted with unqualified sumti: sumti qualifiers
quantification
- before description sumti compared with before non-description sumti: Quantified descriptions
quantificational pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary
- implicit quantification rules: Pro-sumti summary
quantified space: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
quantified sumti
- different types contrasted for scope for distribution: Grouping of quantifiers
quantified temporal tense
- definition: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
- negating with "nai": Interval properties: TAhE and roi
quantified temporal tense with direction
- Lojban contrasted with English in implications: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
quantified temporal tenses
- "once" contrasted with "only once": Interval properties: TAhE and roi
- caveat on implication of: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
quantified tenses
- as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
quantifier
- lerfu string as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- on previously quantified variable: A few notes on variables
quantifier scope
- in multiple connected sentences: bridi negation and logical connectives
quantifiers
- effect of moving "naku": Using naku outside a prenex
- with logical variables: Variables with generalized quantifiers
- with sumti: Quantified sumti
quark: fu'ivla
question pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary
- implicit quantifier for: Pro-sumti summary
questions
- answering with "go'i": Anaphoric pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ri-series and the go'i-series
- connection: Truth questions and connective questions
- digit: Number questions
- fill-in-the-blank: Questions and answers
- marking in advance: Miscellaneous indicators
- multiple: Questions and answers
- number: Number questions, Questions and answers
- operator: Other uses of mekso
- place structure position: Tagging places: FA
- quick-tour version: Questions, Questions
- rhetorical: Miscellaneous indicators
- selbri: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo, Questions and answers
- sumti: sumti and bridi questions: ma and mo, Questions and answers
- truth: Questions and answers
- with "xu": Miscellaneous indicators
quick runner: Simple tanru
quotation
- contrasted with "me'o" for representing lerfu: References to lerfu
- contrasted with sentence abstraction: Predication/sentence abstraction
- four kinds: Quotation summary
- implicit quantifier for: Quotation summary
quotations
- as possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
- implicit quantifier for: Quantified sumti

R

r-hyphen
- contrasted with n-hyphen in requirements for use: rafsi
- use of: lujvo, rafsi
radio communication
- proposed lerfu words for: Proposed lerfu words for radio communication
radix
- decimal (see also base): Non-decimal and compound bases
rafsi
- as fu'ivla categorizer: fu'ivla
- based on pro-sumti: lujvo based on pro-sumti
- considerations restricting construction of: rafsi
- contrasted with cmavo in usage: rafsi
- contrasted with same-form cmavo in meaning: lujvo
- contrasted with words: rafsi
- conventional meaning for "cu'o": Miscellany
- conventional meaning for "frinu": Miscellany
- definition: lujvo
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
- forms of: rafsi
- four-letter
- - requirement for y-hyphen: rafsi
- lack of
- - effect on forming lujvo: rafsi
- level of uniqueness of relation to gismu: rafsi
- long: rafsi
- multiple for each gismu: Considerations for making lujvo
- multiplicity of for single gismu: rafsi
- possible forms for construction of: rafsi
- rationale for assignments of: rafsi
- rules for combining to form lujvo: lujvo
- selection considerations in making lujvo: rafsi
- short: rafsi
- uniqueness in gismu referent of: rafsi
- use of: rafsi
rafsi assignments
- non-reassignability of: rafsi
rafsi for numbers: rafsi
rafsi form
- effect of choice on meaning of lujvo: lujvo
rafsi fu'ivla: Cultural and other non-algorithmic gismu
rafsi space: rafsi
Ralph: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
rat eats cheese: Interval properties: TAhE and roi, Tenses as sumtcita, Tenses as sumtcita, Tenses as sumtcita
rat eats cheese in park: Conversion of sumtcita: JAI, Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
rats are brown: Masses and sets
rats in park: Special mekso selbri
re-ordering logical variables with "se": Dropping the prenex
real world
- contrasted with hypothetical world
- - example: Discursives
real world point of view: Discursives
Received Pronunciation: IPA for English speakers
reciprocal
- expression of mathematical: Signs and numerical punctuation
reciprocal pro-sumti: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
reciprocity
- expressing with "soi": Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
- expressing with vo'a-series pro-sumti and "soi": Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
recital rooms: Dependent places
Red Pony: sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers
red pony: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o, Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
redundancy
- effect on vocative design: Vocative scales
reference
- ambiguity of "ti"/"ta"/"tu": What are you pointing at?
- and discursive utterances: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
- quick-tour version: The sumti di'u and la'e di'u
- to relativized sumti with "ke'a": What are you pointing at?
- use of relative clause for: What are you pointing at?
reference frame
- specifying for direction tenses: Movement in space: MOhI
reference frame for directions in tenses: Movement in space: MOhI
reference grammar: What is this book?
referent
- of operand: Miscellany
- referring to with "la'e": sumti qualifiers
referent of pro-bridi
- definition: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
referent of pro-sumti
- definition: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
reflexive pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary, Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
regularly: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
relation of first places in logical connection of observatives
- rationale: Compound bridi
relationship
- active/static/attributive compared: The concept of the bridi
- as basis of sentence: Introductory
- objects of: Introductory
relationship abstraction: Property abstractions
relative clause
- compared with tanru: Incidental relative clauses
- connecting to relative phrase with "zi'e": Multiple relative clauses: zi'e
- contrasted with tanru: Incidental relative clauses
- effect of omission of ke'a on : What are you pointing at?
- restrictive (see also restrictive relative clause): Incidental relative clauses
- use for reference: What are you pointing at?
relative clause scope
- extending to preceding sumti with "vu'o": Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o, Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
relative clauses
- as part of name: Relative clauses and descriptors
- effect of commas in English: Incidental relative clauses
- effect on elidability of "be'o": Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
- impact of indefinite sumti on placement: Relative clauses and descriptors
- impact of la on placement: Relative clauses and descriptors
- impact of LAhE on placement: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
- impact of NAhE on placement: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
- kinds of: Incidental relative clauses
- list of cmavo for: Index of relative clause cmavo
- on connected sumti: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
- on names: Relative clauses and descriptors
- on number: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
- on possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
- on quotation: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
- on vocative phrases: Relative clauses in vocative phrases
- placement with vocative phrases: Relative clauses in vocative phrases
- relative clauses within: Relative clauses within relative clauses
- restricted contrasted with incidental: Incidental relative clauses
- restricted contrasted with incidental in English expression: Incidental relative clauses
- syntax with indefinite sumti: Relative clauses and descriptors
- use in restricting existential claims: Restricted claims: da poi
- use in restricting universal claims: Restricted claims: da poi
- use of "ke'a" for referral to relativized sumti in: Relativized pro-sumti: ke'a
relative clauses and indefinite sumti
- placement considerations: Relative clauses and descriptors
relative clauses and LAhE
- placement considerations: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
relative clauses and NAhE
- placement considerations: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
relative clauses and names
- placement considerations: Relative clauses and descriptors
relative clauses and possessive sumti
- development history: Possessive sumti
relative clauses on "lo"
- syntax suggestion: Relative clauses and descriptors
relative clauses on complex sumti
- Lojban contrasted with English: Relative clauses and complex sumti: vu'o
relative clauses on indefinite sumti
- syntax considerations: Relative clauses and descriptors
relative clauses with possessive sumti
- effect of placement: Possessive sumti
relative phrase
- as an abbreviation of a common relative clause: Relative phrases
- compared with possessive sumti: Possessive sumti
- connecting to relative clause with "zi'e": Multiple relative clauses: zi'e
- rationale for: Relative phrases
- syntax of: Relative phrases
relative phrases
- contrasted with possessive sumti in complexity allowed: Possessive sumti
- contrasted with relative clauses in preciseness: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
- improving preciseness with modals: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
relative phrases with modals
- compared to relative clauses in preciseness: Modal relative phrases; Comparison
relative pro-sumti: Pro-sumti summary
relativity theory
- relation to Lojban tense system: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
relativized sumti
- definition: What are you pointing at?
- in relative clauses within relative clauses: Relative clauses within relative clauses
remembered
- example: Evidentials
repeating decimals
- expressing with numerical punctuation: Signs and numerical punctuation
- marking start of repeating portion: Signs and numerical punctuation
representing lerfu
- "lu" contrasted with "me'o": References to lerfu
respectively: Non-logical connectives
- specifying with "fa'u": Non-logical connectives
- with different relationships: More about non-logical connectives
restricted claims
- definition: Restricted claims: da poi
restricted variable
- compared with indefinite description: Variables with generalized quantifiers
restrictive relative clause
- definition: Incidental relative clauses
resume
- contrasted with begin: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
resumptive event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
retrospective event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
revelation
- example: Evidentials
reverse Polish notation
- and mekso goals: Introductory
- definition: Reverse Polish notation
- marker: Reverse Polish notation
- number of operands: Reverse Polish notation
- operands of: Reverse Polish notation
- parentheses in operands of: Reverse Polish notation
- terminator: Reverse Polish notation
- use of parentheses in: Reverse Polish notation
- with too few operands: Reverse Polish notation
- with too many operands: Reverse Polish notation
reviewers of this book: Acknowledgements and credits
rhetorical question: Miscellaneous indicators
rich and German: More about non-logical connectives, More about non-logical connectives
right-grouping in tanru
- with "bo": Complex tanru grouping
right-grouping rule
- definition of: Complex tanru grouping
righteous indignation
- example: Attitudinal modifiers
rock face: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
roger
- example: Vocative scales
romaji
- as a basis for kanji characters in Lojban lerfu words: What about Chinese characters?
Roman Empire: Types of event abstractions, 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 numbers
- expressing: Approximation and inexact numbers
rounded up: Approximation and inexact numbers
rounded/unrounded vowels: Basic phonetics
RP
- as abbreviation for reverse Polish notation: Reverse Polish notation
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
Sapir-Whorf effects
- and emotional indicators: Tentative conclusion
sarcasm
- example: Discursives
- expressing: Discursives
scalar attitude: Attitudes as scales
scalar negation
- effect on selbri: Scalar negation of selbri
scalar negation of modals
- explanation of meaning: Modal negation
scalar negation of non-logical connective: More about non-logical connectives
scale
- granular contrasted with continuous: Special mekso selbri
scale of redness: Special mekso selbri
scale selbri
- definition: Special mekso selbri
- place structure: Special mekso selbri
- place structure effect from subjective numbers: Special mekso selbri
school building: Dependent places
schooner: Lojban content words: brivla
scientific names
- rules for: cmevla
scientific notation
- rationale for order of places: Infix operators revisited
- with "gei": Infix operators revisited
score
- as 20-year span: Four score and seven: a mekso problem
- as alternate base for years: Four score and seven: a mekso problem
seconds
- example of timestamp: Non-decimal and compound bases
section numbering: Other uses of mekso
see with eye: Modal selbri
see with left eye: Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
selbri
- as part of description: The three basic description types
- brivla as: Lojban content words: brivla
- converting into an operand: Using Lojban resources within mekso
- converting into an operator: Using Lojban resources within mekso
- converting operator into: Other uses of mekso
- definition: Lojban content words: brivla, Introductory
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
- lerfu string as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- omitting with "co'e": Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
- place structure of: Introductory
- place structure of converted operator: Other uses of mekso
- relation to bridi: Lojban content words: brivla
- scalar negation of: Scalar negation of selbri
- with GOhA: Other kinds of simple selbri
selbri from sumti: selbri based on sumti: me
selbri list for quick tour: Some words used to indicate selbri relations
selbri logical variables: selbri variables
selbri place structure
- effect on operator formed by: Using Lojban resources within mekso
selbri placement among sumti
- effect of multiple quantification on: Using naku outside a prenex
selbri questions
- quick-tour version: Questions
selbri variables
- form when not in prenex: selbri variables
- prenex form as indefinite description: selbri variables
- quantified: selbri variables
selbri-first bridi
- effect on sumti places: Standard bridi form: cu
- effect on use of cu: Tagging places: FA
- specifying first sumti place in with fa: Tagging places: FA
self-orientation
- example: Attitudinal modifiers
selma'o
- cross-reference list of
- - selma'o catalog: A catalogue of selma'o
- definition: cmavo
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
seltau
- compared with English adjective: lujvo
- compared with English adverb: lujvo
- definition: Inversion of tanru: co
- definition of: Simple tanru
- effect on meaning of tanru: Simple tanru
- filling sumti places in: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
seltcita sumti
- definition (see also modal sumti): Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
sentence
- basic Lojban: Introductory
sentences
- close grouping: Sentences: I
- connecting non-logically: More about non-logical connectives
- connecting with tense: Tense relations between sentences
- forethought tense connection of: Tense relations between sentences
- separator for joining: Sentences: I
- tenseless
- - quick-tour version: Tenses
separate questions
- quick-tour version: Questions
separately tensed sentences
- contrasted with tense connected sentences: Tense relations between sentences
sequence
- as an abstract list: Non-logical connectives
- contrasted with list: Non-logical connectives
- contrasted with set: sumti qualifiers
sequence of events
- expressing non-time-related sequences: More about non-logical connectives
sequence of tense rules
- Lojban contrasted with English: Tenses in subordinate bridi
set
- as specified by members: Non-logical connectives
- by listing members with "ce": Non-logical connectives
- compared with mass as abstract of multiple individuals: Masses and sets
- contrasted with mass in attribution of component properties: Masses and sets
- contrasted with mass in distribution of properties: Non-logical connectives
- contrasted with ordered sequence: Non-logical connectives
- expressing measurement standard for indefinites: Special mekso selbri
- expressing relation with individuals forming set: Special mekso selbri
- expressing relation with mass formed from set: Special mekso selbri
set of all rats: Special mekso selbri
set of rats: sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers
set operations: More about non-logical connectives
sets
- properties of: Masses and sets
- rule for implicit outer quantifier: Quantified descriptions
- use in Lojban place structure: Masses and sets
sexual discomfort
- example: Emotional categories
sexual teacher
- male
- - example: lujvo-making examples
shared bridi-tail sumti
- avoiding: Other modal connections
shell worm: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
shellfish: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo, Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
Sherman tank: rafsi
shift
- single-letter
- - grammar of: Upper and lower cases
shift word
- for single letter: Upper and lower cases
- scope: Upper and lower cases
shift words
- canceling effect: Alien alphabets
- for face: Alien alphabets
- for font: Alien alphabets
ship sank: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours
shoehorn: Dependent places
shook stick: What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?, What are pro-sumti and pro-bridi? What are they for?
short rafsi: rafsi
short rafsi form
- compared with long form in effect on lujvo meaning: lujvo
signed numbers
- expressing: Signs and numerical punctuation
signs on numbers
- grammar: Signs and numerical punctuation
Simon says: Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series
simple sumti: The five kinds of simple sumti
simultaneously: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
sinful
- example: Attitudinal modifiers
single consonants
- contrasted with consonant clusters: Consonant clusters
- contrasted with doubled consonants: Consonant clusters
single-letter shift
- as toggle: Upper and lower cases
single-word quotation: Quotation summary
singular me: Special mekso selbri
sister pregnant: Discursives, Discursives
six-shooter: Sub-events
size
- order with dimensionality in spatial tense intervals: Dimensionality: VIhA
slinku'i test
- definition: fu'ivla
slowdown: Types of event abstractions
smiley face
- example: The universal bu
- word for: The universal bu
sneak in: Eliding KE and KEhE rafsi from lujvo
snow falls: Tenses as sumtcita
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
- contrasted with somebody else: Existential claims, prenexes, and 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
- contrasted with someone: Restricted claims: da poi
- expressing using "su'o": Variables with generalized quantifiers
- unspecified definite with "zo'e": 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
sounds
- clarity of: Basic phonetics
- complex: Basic phonetics
- difficult: Basic phonetics
sounds for letters
- Lojban contrasted with English: Basic phonetics
source languages
- use in creating gismu: The gismu creation algorithm
south face: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
sow grain: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
sowed grain: Tense questions: cu'e
space
- as time-based metaphor: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
- contrasted with time in number of directions: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
space intervals
- compared with time intervals in continuity: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
space location
- as part of tense system (see also tense
- - spatial tense): Introductory
space tenses
- quick-tour version: Tenses
space/time metaphor
- expressing direction mapping for: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
spaghetti: fu'ivla, fu'ivla
Spanish ch
- example: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
Spanish ll
- example: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
spatial contours
- as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
- contrasted with temporal event contours: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
- expressing: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
spatial directions
- list of: List of spatial directions and direction-like relations
spatial information
- adding to a sentence with tense sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
spatial interval modifiers
- order in tense: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
spatial intervals
- expressing degree of continuity over: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
spatial tense
- 4-dimensional interaction with temporal tense: Dimensionality: VIhA
- as an imaginary journey: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- as optional in English: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- compared with temporal tense in elidability: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- contrasted with temporal in dimensionality: Dimensionality: VIhA
- definition: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- direction: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- distance: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- four-dimensional: Dimensionality: VIhA
- linear: Dimensionality: VIhA
- one-dimensional: Dimensionality: VIhA
- order relative to temporal: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
- planar: Dimensionality: VIhA
- reference frame: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- referent of: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- three-dimensional: Dimensionality: VIhA
- two-dimensional: Dimensionality: VIhA
spatial tense intervals
- order of size and dimensionality in: Dimensionality: VIhA
- order of VEhA and VIhA in: Dimensionality: VIhA
spatial tenses
- as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
- order of direction and distance specifications: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
speaker's state of knowledge: Discursives
speaker-listener cooperation: Questions
speaker-relative viewpoint
- contrasted with event-relative viewpoint: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
specific descriptions: The three basic description types
specific terms
- use of fu'ivla for: fu'ivla
specificity
- expressing with "po": Relative phrases
speech rhythm
- for grouping in English: Three-part tanru grouping with bo
spelling out words
- Lojban contrasted with English in usefulness: A to Z in Lojban, plus one
spiritual discomfort
- example: Emotional categories
SQL: Acronyms
square brackets
- use of in notation: What are the typographical conventions of this book?
standard bridi form
- definition: Standard bridi form: cu
standard for subjective numbers
- specifying: Special mekso selbri
standard pronunciation: Basic phonetics
starting marker: Erasure: SI, SA, SU
state abstraction
- place structure: Types of event abstractions
state abstractions
- definition: Types of event abstractions
- related tense contours: Event-type abstractors and event contour tenses
state abstractor: Types of event abstractions
state event
- described: Types of event abstractions
steady speed: Types of event abstractions
stereotypical
- as not derogatory in Lojban: Descriptors for typical objects
- compared with typical: Descriptors for typical objects
stereotypical objects: Descriptors for typical objects
Steven Mark Jones: lerfu words as pro-sumti
sticky modals
- 'fi'o' proscribed from: Sticky modals
- canceling: Sticky modals
- definition: Sticky modals
sticky tenses
- and CAhA: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
- canceling: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- definition: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- effect of nau on: Tenses in subordinate bridi
- effect on future tense meaning: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- from part of a multiple tense: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
stop
- contrasted with finish: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- contrasted with pause: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
stories
- flow of time in: Story time
story tense
- Lojban convention contrasted with English convention: Story time
story time
- as a convention for inferring tense: Story time
- definition: Story time
- rationale for: Story time
- tenseless sentences in: Story time
- with no initial sticky time: Story time
stress
- definition of: Syllabication and stress
- effect of buffer vowel on: Buffering of consonant clusters
- effect of syllabic consonants on: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- example: Emotional categories
- final syllable
- - rules for pause after: Rules for inserting pauses
- irregular marked with upper-case: Upper and lower cases
- levels of: Syllabication and stress
- on cmavo: cmavo
- primary: Syllabication and stress
- quick-tour version: Pronunciation
- rules for: Syllabication and stress
- secondary: Syllabication and stress
- showing non-standard: Orthography
stressed syllable
- compared with stressed vowel: Syllabication and stress
stressed vowel
- compared with stressed syllable: Syllabication and stress
stroke cat then rabbit: Tensed logical connectives, Tensed logical connectives, Tensed logical connectives
structure of examples: What are the typographical conventions of this book?
structure of this book: What is this book?
structure words: cmavo
sub-subscripts: Subscripts
subjective amounts
- expressing: Indefinite numbers
subjective numbers
- effect on place structure for cardinal selbri: Special mekso selbri
- effect on place structure for ordinal selbri: Special mekso selbri
- effect on place structure for portion selbri: Special mekso selbri
- effect on place structure for probability selbri: Special mekso selbri
- effect on place structure for scale selbri: Special mekso selbri
- rationale for effect on place structure: Special mekso selbri
- specifying standard for: Special mekso selbri
subjective portions
- expressing: Indefinite numbers
subordinate clause tense
- effect of main bridi tense on: Tenses in subordinate bridi
- Lojban compared with Esperanto: Tenses in subordinate bridi
- Lojban compared with Russian: Tenses in subordinate bridi
- Lojban contrasted with English: Tenses in subordinate bridi
subordinate clauses
- tense usage rules in English: Tenses in subordinate bridi
subscripted topics: Paragraphs: NIhO
subscripting: Subscripts: XI
subscripts
- and fuzzy truths: Subscripts: XI
- and names: Subscripts: XI
- and paragraph separators: Subscripts: XI
- and pro-sumti: Subscripts: XI
- and sumti re-ordering: Subscripts: XI
- and tense: Subscripts: XI
- before main expression: Subscripts
- effects on elidability of terminators: Subscripts
- external grammar of: Subscripts
- for sticky tense: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- internal grammar of: Subscripts
- lerfu string as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
- mathematical: Subscripts: XI
- multiple as sub-subscript: Subscripts
- multiple for same base word: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
- on "ke'a" for nested relative clauses: Relativized pro-sumti: ke'a
- terminator for: Subscripts
- to form matrices of more than 2 dimensions: Vectors and matrices
- use with "ke'a" for outer sumti reference: Relative clauses within relative clauses
- use with logical variables: A few notes on variables
subscripts on lerfu words
- effect on elidability of "boi": Subscripts
subsets
- expressing with outer quantifiers: Quantified descriptions
subtraction operator
- contrasted with negative sign: Special numbers
subtypes of words: brivla
sumtcita
- based on event contours: Tenses as sumtcita
- based on spatial contours: Tenses as sumtcita
- based on tense direction: Tenses as sumtcita
- based on tense distance: Tenses as sumtcita
- based on tenses: Tenses as sumtcita
- definition (see also modal tag): Modal places: FIhO, FEhU
- event contours contrasted with direction/distance as basis for: Tenses as sumtcita
sumtcita and linked sumti: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
sumtcita and modal tags: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
sumtcita and tense tags: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
sumtcita based on dimension: Tenses as sumtcita
sumtcita based on event contours
- relation of main bridi to sumti process in: Tenses as sumtcita
sumtcita based on interval continuousness: Tenses as sumtcita
sumtcita based on interval properties: Tenses as sumtcita
sumtcita based on interval size: Tenses as sumtcita
sumtcita based on quantified tenses: Tenses as sumtcita
sumti
- as having implicit quantifiers: Quantified sumti
- as objects in place structure slots: Introductory
- beginning with "ke": Grouping of afterthought connectives
- between descriptor and description selbri: Possessive sumti
- classified by types of objects referred to: Individuals and masses
- converting into an operand: Using Lojban resources within mekso
- definition: The five kinds of simple sumti, Introductory
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
- descriptions as: The five kinds of simple sumti
- dropping trailing unspecified: Standard bridi form: cu
- explicitly mapping into place structure with FA: Tagging places: FA
- for individual objects: Individuals and masses
- for mass objects: Individuals and masses
- for set objects: Individuals and masses
- forethought tense connection of: Tense relations between sentences
- irrelevant to relationship: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
- kinds of: The five kinds of simple sumti
- multiple in one place with FA: Tagging places: FA
- names as: The five kinds of simple sumti
- numbers as: The five kinds of simple sumti
- omitted first place in selbri-first bridi: Standard bridi form: cu
- order in selbri: Standard bridi form: cu
- order in selbri-first bridi: Standard bridi form: cu
- pro-sumti as: The five kinds of simple sumti
- quotations as: The five kinds of simple sumti
- re-ordering with FA: Tagging places: FA
- relation with bridi: The concept of the bridi
sumti connection
- afterthought: sumti connection
- forethought: sumti connection
sumti in one place
- multiple ones: Tagging places: FA
sumti into selbri: selbri based on sumti: me
sumti logical connection: sumti connection
- compared with bridi logical connections: sumti connection
- contrasted with tanru logical connection: Logical connection within tanru
- rationale for: sumti connection
sumti modal connection: Other modal connections
sumti placement
- variant
- - quick-tour version: Variant bridi structure
sumti qualifiers
- as short forms for common special cases: sumti qualifiers
- elidable terminator for qualified sumti: sumti qualifiers
- external syntax of: sumti qualifiers
- for negation: sumti qualifiers
- internal syntax of: sumti qualifiers
- list of: sumti qualifiers
sumti questions
- quick-tour version: Questions
sumti reordering
- quick-tour version: Varying the order of sumti
sumti with "lo"
- compared to indefinite sumti: Grouping of quantifiers
sumti with tense
- effect of main bridi tense on: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
sumti with tenses
- quick-tour version: Tenses
sumti-based description
- definition: sumti-based descriptions
- inner quantifier on: sumti-based descriptions
- outer quantifier on: sumti-based descriptions
sumti-based descriptions with le
- as increasing restricting to in-mind: sumti-based descriptions
Sun
- the: cmevla
sunburn
- example: Property abstractions
superfective event contour: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
superscripts: Subscripts
supervising
- as a contribution to mass action: Non-logical connectives
supper: rafsi
supplementary information: Dependent places
Susan: Parenthesis and metalinguistic commentary: TO, TOI, SEI
sword blade: lujvo with more than two parts.
syllabaries
- lerfu word representation: What about Chinese characters?
syllabic consonant
- effect on stress determination: cmevla
syllabic consonants: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- effect on stress: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- final in word: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
syllabic l
- considered as a consonant for morphological discussions: Introductory
syllabic m
- as a consonant for morphological discussions: Introductory
syllabic n
- as a consonant for morphological discussions: Introductory
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
syllabic r
- as a consonant for morphological discussions: Introductory
syllabication
- and names: Syllabication and stress
- definition of: Syllabication and stress
- examples of: Syllabication and stress
- rules for: Syllabication and stress
- variants of: Syllabication and stress
syllable break
- contrasted with pause: The special Lojban characters
- representation in Lojban: The special Lojban characters
- symbol for: The universal bu
- word for: The universal bu
symbol
- for operand: Miscellany
- referring to with "lu'e": sumti qualifiers
symmetrical tanru: Some types of symmetrical tanru
symmetrical tanru types
- both separately true: Some types of symmetrical tanru
- one or other true: Some types of symmetrical tanru
- using crucial/typical parts: Some types of symmetrical tanru
- using more inclusive class: Some types of symmetrical tanru
symmetrical veljvo: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
sympathy
- example: Attitude questions; empathy; attitude contours

T

tables
- format of: What are the typographical conventions of this book?
tagged sumti termsets
- connecting with non-logical forethought connectives: More about non-logical connectives
tail-terms
- definition: Compound bridi
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
tanru
- ambiguity in: lujvo
- ambiguity of: lujvo, Simple tanru
- and abstractions: The syntax of abstraction
- and conversion
- - quick-tour version: tanru
- and creativity: lujvo
- as ambiguous: Simple tanru
- asymmetrical: Some types of asymmetrical tanru
- combination of: lujvo
- containing mathematical expressions: Other kinds of simple selbri
- default left-grouping of: Three-part tanru grouping with bo
- definition: Simple tanru
- - quick-tour version: Lojban grammatical terms
- expanding: Discursives
- explanation of: lujvo
- explicating: Discursives
- explicitly defining: Discursives
- expression of: lujvo
- meaning of: Simple tanru
- place structure of: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour
- - quick-tour version: tanru
- place structures of: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o, Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
- possible meanings of: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour
- primary meaning of: Simple tanru
- purpose: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour
- quick-tour version: tanru
- reducing logically connected sumti to
- - caveat: Logical connection within tanru
- simple: Simple tanru
- to lujvo: lujvo
- with GOhA: Other kinds of simple selbri
tanru and conversion: Conversion of simple selbri
tanru connection
- connotation of non-logical: Non-logical connectives
tanru connection grouping
- guheks unmarked tanru: Logical connection within tanru
tanru conversion
- effect on place structure
- - quick-tour version: tanru
tanru default grouping
- quick-tour version: tanru
tanru grouping
- complex: Complex tanru grouping
- effect of jeks: Logical connection within tanru
- effect of tanru inversion on: Inversion of tanru: co
- guheks compared with jeks: Logical connection within tanru
- three-part: Three-part tanru grouping with bo
- with "bo": Complex tanru grouping
- with "ke": Complex tanru with ke and ke'e
- with "ke" and "bo": Complex tanru with ke and ke'e
tanru grouping with JA+BO
- effect on tanru grouping: Logical connection within tanru
tanru inversion: Inversion of tanru: co
- definition: Inversion of tanru: co
- effect on tanru grouping: Inversion of tanru: co
- in complex tanru: Inversion of tanru: co
- multiple: Inversion of tanru: co
- rule for removing: Inversion of tanru: co
- where allowed: Inversion of tanru: co
tanru inversion and place structure: Inversion of tanru: co
tanru logical connection
- contrasted with sumti logical connection: Logical connection within tanru
tanru nested within tanru: Three-part tanru grouping with bo
technical terms: What are the typographical conventions of this book?
telephone conversation
- hello: Vocative scales
television: IPA for English speakers
template: Minor abstraction types
temporal direction
- exception in meaning when following "ze'e": Interval properties: TAhE and roi
temporal information
- adding to a sentence with tense sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
temporal tense
- as mandatory in English: Introductory
- compared with spatial tense in elidability: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- historical definition: Introductory
- interaction with 4-dimensional spatial tense: Dimensionality: VIhA
- Lojban contrasted with English in necessity: Introductory
- order relative to spatial: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
- quantified with direction: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
- real relationship to time in English: Introductory
temporal tense elision
- compared with spatial tense elision in meaning: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
temporal tenses
- compared with spatial tenses: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
ten
- expressing as number: Lojban numbers
tense
- aorist: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
- as observer-based: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
- as subjective perception: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
- connecting sentences in with: Tense relations between sentences
- contradictory negation contrasted with scalar negation of: Tense negation
- effect of different position in sentence: Introductory
- effect of sticky tense on: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- emphasizing by position in sentence: Introductory
- explanation of presentation method: Introductory
- expressing movement in: Movement in space: MOhI
- handling multiple episodes: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- in forethought bridi-tail connection
- - special rule: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- interval contrasted with point: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- Lojban contrasted with English in implications of completeness: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
- Lojban contrasted with English in implying actuality: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
- Lojban contrasted with native languages: Introductory
- numerical: Other uses of mekso
- on embedded bridi: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- order of direction
- - distance and interval in: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- order of direction specification in: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- order of distance specification in: Spatial tenses: FAhA and VA
- order of movement specification in: Movement in space: MOhI
- order of spatial interval modifiers in: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
- order of temporal and spatial in: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
- overriding to speaker's current: Tenses in subordinate bridi
- point contrasted with interval: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- position in sentence alternative: Introductory
- position of in sentence: Introductory
- quantified: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
- rationale for relative order of temporal and spatial in: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
- relation of interval to point specified by direction and distance: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- relation of point specified by direction and distance to interval: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- relative order with bridi negation: Tenses and bridi negation
- scalar negation contrasted with contradictory negation of: Tense negation
- scalar negation of with NAhE: Tense negation
- scope effect of new paragraph: Paragraphs: NIhO
- scope of: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- selbri types applicable to: Introductory
- space-time dimension for intervals: Dimensionality: VIhA
- speaker's current: Tenses in subordinate bridi
- specifying relation of interval to point specified by direction and distance: Interval sizes: VEhA and ZEhA
- static contrasted with moving: Movement in space: MOhI
- subscripting: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- sumtcita form contrasted with connected sentences: Tense relations between sentences
- with "ku": Introductory
- with both temporal and spatial: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
tense afterthought connection forms
- selma'o allowed: Tense relations between sentences
tense and na
- multiple: Tenses and bridi negation
tense as sumtcita
- contrasted with tense inside sumti: Tenses as sumtcita
tense cmavo
- position relative to selbri: Tenses and bridi negation
tense connected sentences
- contrasted with separately tensed sentences: Tense relations between sentences
- forethought mode: Tense relations between sentences
- importance of bo in: Tense relations between sentences
tense connection
- equivalent meanings: Tense relations between sentences
- expansions of: Tense relations between sentences
tense connection of bridi-tails
- meaning of: Tense relations between sentences
tense connection of sentences
- contrasted with sumtcita form: Tense relations between sentences
- order of: Tense relations between sentences
tense connection of sumti
- meaning of: Tense relations between sentences
tense conversion
- accessing original first place with "fai": Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
- accessing tense of bridi with "jai": Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
- of temporal tenses: Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
- use in sumti descriptions: Conversion of sumtcita: JAI
- with "jai": Conversion of simple selbri
tense direction
- as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
- contrasted with event contours in implication of extent: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
- implications on scope of event: Vague intervals and non-specific tenses
tense direction/distance as sumtcita
- contrasted with event contours: Tenses as sumtcita
tense distance
- as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
tense forethought connection forms
- selma'o allowed: Tense relations between sentences
tense in scope of sticky tense
- compared with compound tense: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
tense inside sumti
- contrasted with tense as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
tense on main bridi
- effect on embedded bridi tenses: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- effect on embedded sumti with tenses: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
tense questions
- by using logical connective question: Tense questions: cu'e
- methods of asking: Tense questions: cu'e
tense questions with "ma": Tense questions: cu'e
tense sentence connection
- table of equivalent schemata: Tenses versus modals
tense specification
- effect on "cu": Introductory
- effect on elidability of terminators: Introductory
tense system
- and space location: Introductory, Introductory
tense tags and sumtcita: Linked sumti: be - bei - be'o
tense with sumtcita
- asymmetry of: Tense relations between sentences
tense-or-modal questions
- pre-specifying some information: Tense questions: cu'e
- with "cu'e": Tense questions: cu'e
tensed connectives
- in mathematical expressions: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
tensed logical connection: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
tensed logical connectives: Tensed logical connectives
- forethought: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in ek…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in ek…"ke": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in gihek…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in gihek…"ke": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in ijek…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in ijek…"tu'e": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in ijoik…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in ijoik…"tu'e": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in jek…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in joik…"bo": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- in joik…"ke": Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- with "ke"…"ke'e": Tensed logical connectives
- with "tu'e"…"tu'u": Tensed logical connectives
tensed logically connected bridi-tails: Tensed logical connectives
- with grouping: Tensed logical connectives
tensed logically connected sentences: Tensed logical connectives
- with grouping: Tensed logical connectives
tensed logically connected sumti: Tensed logical connectives
- with grouping: Tensed logical connectives
tensed non-logical connectives: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- forethought: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
tenseless sentences in story time: Story time
tenses
- compared with modals in syntax: Tenses versus modals
- connected
- - with negation: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
- contradictory negation of with "nai": Tense negation
- contrasted with modals in semantics: Tenses versus modals
- forethought connection in: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- forethought logical connections: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
- grouping of connectives in: Tenses, modals, and logical connection
- importance of 2nd sumti place for sumtcita use: Tenses versus modals
- logically connected with JA: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
- multiple in sentence: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- multiple in sentence compared with compound tense: Sticky and multiple tenses: KI
- negating: Tense negation
- non-logical connection of: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
- non-logical connection of for sub-events: Sub-events
- possible groupings of: Logical and non-logical connections between tenses
- quick-tour version: Tenses
- use as sumtcita: Tenses as sumtcita
- viewpoint of PU contrasted with viewpoint of ZAhO: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u
tenses with elided CAhA
- meaning: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
term
- definition: Termset logical connection
terminators
- eliding "ku" in non-logical connections: Non-logical connectives
termset
- effect on scope of multiple indefinite sumti: Grouping of quantifiers
- formation: Termset logical connection
termset logical connection
- unequal length: Termset logical connection
termset modal connection: Other modal connections
termsets
- compared to fa'u: Non-logical connectives
- non-logical connection of: More about non-logical connectives
tertau
- definition: Inversion of tanru: co
- definition of: Simple tanru
- effect on meaning of tanru: Simple tanru
text
- division numbering with "mai": Other uses of mekso
- sub-division numbering with "mai": Other uses of mekso
text quotation
- as internally grammatical: Quotation summary
- syntax of: Quotation summary
thank you
- example: Vocative scales
the
- contrasted with English "a/an": Miscellaneous indicators
- for talking about numbers themselves: Simple infix expressions and equations
The men are women: The three basic description types
the two of you: sumti-based descriptions, sumti-based descriptions
there is a Y
- expression "there is a Y" in English
- - notation convention: Negation boundaries
thingy: Assignable pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the ko'a-series and the broda-series
this
- adjective expression with "ti noi": Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
- adjective expression with "vi": Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
- adjective usage contrasted with pronoun usage: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
- as utterance reference in English: Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series
- pronoun expression with ti: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
- pronoun usage contrasted with adjective usage: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
this boat: Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series, Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series, Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
this book
- author of: Acknowledgements and credits
- contributors to: Acknowledgements and credits
- credits for: Acknowledgements and credits
- examples of: What are the typographical conventions of this book?
- goal of: What is this book?
- reviewers of: Acknowledgements and credits
- structure of: What is this book?
this/that in English
- compared with ti-series pro-sumti: 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
thus
- example: Evidentials
tilde
- a diacritical mark: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
time
- as part of tense system (see also tense
- - temporal tense): Introductory
- as space-based metaphor: Space interval modifiers: FEhE
- contrasted with space in number of directions: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
time tenses
- quick-tour version: Tenses
time travel: Movement in space: MOhI
times
- explicit expression of: Indefinite numbers
- implicit expression of: Indefinite numbers
title
- specifying with "tu'e…tu'u": Sentences: I
title of book: sumti qualifiers, sumti qualifiers
to the market from the office: Termset logical connection
to-do list: More about non-logical connectives
Tolkien
- and non-standard Lojban orthography: Oddball orthographies
tomorrow: lujvo with more than two parts.
too
- example: Discursives
too long: Event contours: ZAhO and re'u, Tenses as sumtcita
too many rats
- example: Special mekso selbri
topic-comment
- description: Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU
topic/comment
- multiple sentence: Topic-comment sentences: ZOhU
tosmabru test: The lujvo-making algorithm
toward her right: Movement in space: MOhI
toward my right: Movement in space: MOhI
toward right
- contrasted with on right: Movement in space: MOhI
transfinite cardinal: Special numbers
transformations with logical connectives
- steps: Logical connectives and DeMorgan's law
traveling salesperson: Modal tags: BAI
triumph: Types of event abstractions
truncation of number
- expressing: Approximation and inexact numbers
truth
- in imperative sentences: Truth questions and connective questions
truth functions: Logical connection and truth tables
- 16 possible: Logical connection and truth tables
- commutative: The four basic vowels
- creating all 16 with Lojban's basic set: The four basic vowels
- fundamental 4 in Lojban: The four basic vowels
- relation to logical connectives: The four basic vowels
- table of logical connectives: Truth functions and corresponding logical connectives
truth questions: Miscellaneous indicators
- answering in English with "no": Truth questions and connective questions
- answering in English with "yes": Truth questions and connective questions
- as yes-or-no questions: Truth questions and connective questions
- contrasted with connection questions: Truth questions and connective questions
- simple: Truth questions and connective questions
truth table
- explanation: Logical connection and truth tables
truth tables
- abbreviated format: Logical connection and truth tables
- for 4 fundamental Lojban truth functions: The four basic vowels
- list of 16 in abbreviated form: Logical connection and truth tables
- notation convention: Logical connection and truth tables
truth-value abstractions
- place structure: Truth-value abstraction: jei, Predication/sentence abstraction
try the door: Lojban sumti raising
try to go: Inversion of tanru: co
ts-sound in Russian
- representation in Lojban: Basic phonetics
twice today: Tenses as sumtcita
two brothers: Other kinds of simple selbri
two dogs are white: Quantified descriptions
types and subtypes of words: brivla
typical
- compared with stereotypical: Descriptors for typical objects
typical Englishman: Descriptors for typical objects
typical Lojban user: Masses and sets
typical objects
- and instantiation: Descriptors for typical objects
- determining characteristics of: Descriptors for typical objects
typical Smith
- example: Descriptors for typical objects
typical sumti: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series
typical value
- contrasted with elliptical value for sumti: Indefinite pro-sumti and pro-bridi: the zo'e-series and the co'e-series

U

U
- notation convention for logical connectives: The four basic vowels
ugh: More about non-logical connectives
umlaut
- a diacritical mark: Accent marks and compound lerfu words
unabridged dictionary: Contrastive emphasis: BAhE
unconditional signal: No more to say: FAhO
unconnected tanru
- contrasted with logically connected version: Logical connection within tanru
undemonstrated potential
- expressing: Actuality, potentiality, capability: CAhA
under compulsion: Modal selbri, Modal selbri, Modal selbri, Modal selbri
under conditions: Event abstraction
underscore notation for Quick Tour chapter: The concept of the bridi
unequal termset connection
- compared with compound bridi connection with unequal separate bridi-tails: Termset logical connection
unfilled places of inverted tanru: Inversion of tanru: co
Unicode: Computerized character codes
union
- of sets: More about non-logical connectives
union of sets
- compared with English "or": More about non-logical connectives
units of measurement
- expressing: Simple infix expressions and equations
universal
- mixed claim with existential: Universal claims
universal claims
- dangers of using: Dropping the prenex
- explanation: Universal claims
- restricting: Restricted claims: da poi, Restricted claims: da poi
unqualified sumti
- contrasted with qualified sumti: sumti qualifiers
unreduced fractions
- use in granular scales: Special mekso selbri
unreduced lujvo
- definition: rafsi
unspecified breed
- example: Dependent places
unspecified direction
- temporal contrasted with in spatial: Temporal tenses: PU and ZI
unspecified emotion: Compound indicators
unspecified level of emotion: Compound indicators
unspecified route: Standard bridi form: cu
unspecified sumti
- non-trailing: Standard bridi form: cu
- using zo'e as place-holder for: Standard bridi form: cu
unspecified trailing sumti
- dropping: Standard bridi form: cu
unstated emotion: Compound indicators
unusual characters
- words for: The universal bu
unvoiced consonants
- contrasted with voiced in allowable consonant pairs: Initial consonant pairs
unvoiced vowel glide
- apostrophe as: The special Lojban characters
upper-case
- lerfu word for: Upper and lower cases
upper-case letters
- English usage contrasted with Lojban: Upper and lower cases
- Lojban usage contrasted with English: Upper and lower cases
utterance
- expressing relation to discourse: Discursives
utterance ordinal
- lerfu string as: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings
utterance pro-sumti: Utterance pro-sumti: the di'u-series
- stability of: Pro-sumti and pro-bridi cancelling
utterances
- non-bridi: Questions and answers
uy diphthong
- in cmevla: cmevla

V

V
- as a symbol for a single vowel: Introductory
vague abstraction: Minor abstraction types
vague abstractions
- place structure: Minor abstraction types
vague abstractor: Minor abstraction types
vague relationship
- modal tag for: Modal tags: BAI
valid speech
- marking as error with jo'a: Miscellaneous indicators
variables
- logical: Existential claims, prenexes, and variables
vector
- components of: Vectors and matrices
- definition: Vectors and matrices
vector indicator: Vectors and matrices
- terminator for: Vectors and matrices
vectors
- use as operands: Vectors and matrices
- use of parentheses with: Vectors and matrices
veljvo
- symmetrical: Symmetrical and asymmetrical lujvo
verbs
- brivla as Lojban equivalents: brivla
very: Special mekso selbri
veterinarian: Ordering lujvo places.
vice versa: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series, Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series, Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series, Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
- English
- - expressing with vo'a-series pro-sumti and soi: Reflexive and reciprocal pro-sumti: the vo'a-series
virtue
- example: Attitudinal modifiers
vocative phrase
- effect of position on meaning: The syntax of vocative phrases
- elidable terminator for: The syntax of vocative phrases
- explicit quantifiers prohibited on: The syntax of vocative phrases
- forms of: The syntax of vocative phrases
- implicit descriptor on: The syntax of vocative phrases
- implicit quantifiers on: The syntax of vocative phrases
- purpose of: The syntax of vocative phrases
- with complete sumti: The syntax of vocative phrases
- with sumti without descriptor: The syntax of vocative phrases
vocative phrase terminator
- elidability of: The syntax of vocative phrases
vocative phrase with name
- placement of relative clause on: Relative clauses in vocative phrases
vocative phrase with selbri
- placement of relative clause on: Relative clauses in vocative phrases
vocative phrases
- as a free modifier : The syntax of vocative phrases
- relative clauses on: Relative clauses in vocative phrases
vocative word
- phrase following: The syntax of vocative phrases
vocatives
- and definition of English "you": Vocative scales
- contrasted with "la": Vocative scales
- definition: Vocative scales
- grammar overview: Vocative scales
- notation convention symbol "X": Vocative scales
- quick-tour version: Vocatives and commands
- rationale for redundancy: Vocative scales
voiced consonants
- contrasted with unvoiced in allowable consonant pairs: Initial consonant pairs
voiced/unvoiced consonants
- restrictions on: Consonant clusters
vowel
- buffer: Buffering of consonant clusters
vowel buffer
- contrasted with y sound: Buffering of consonant clusters
vowel pairs
- contrasted with diphthongs: Vowel pairs
- definition of: Vowel pairs
- grouping of: Vowel pairs
- involving y: Vowel pairs
- list of: Vowel pairs
- use of apostrophe in: Vowel pairs
vowel-initial words
- necessity for pause before: Rules for inserting pauses
vowels
- contrasted with consonants: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- definition of: Diphthongs and syllabic consonants
- length of: Buffering of consonant clusters
- pronunciation of
- - quick-tour version: Pronunciation
VV string
- as a symbol for a double vowel: Introductory

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
whole time interval
- expressing: Interval properties: TAhE and roi
window: The six types of logical connectives
wine-dark sea: The meaning of tanru: a necessary detour
word classes: Introductory
word forms
- as related to grammatical uses: Introductory
- in Lojban (see also morphology): Introductory
word quotation
- as morphologically valid: Quotation summary
- internal grammar of: Quotation summary
words not in the dictionary: Some words used to indicate selbri relations
wrong concept: Dependent places

X

X-ray: rafsi
x1
- in place structure notation: Introductory
- notation convention
- - quick-tour version: Some words used to indicate selbri relations
x₃: Subscripts
xₐ,ₑ: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
xₖ: Mathematical uses of lerfu strings

Y

y
- considered not to be a vowel for morphological discussions: Introductory
- letter
- - between letters of consonant pair: brivla
  - prohibition from fu'ivla: fu'ivla
- use in avoiding forbidden consonant pairs: Consonant clusters
y sound
- contrasted with vowel buffer: Buffering of consonant clusters
y-hyphen
- and consonant cluster determination: lujvo
- and stress determination: lujvo
- use of: lujvo
yes/no questions: Miscellaneous indicators
- quick-tour version: Questions
yielding the floor: No more to say: FAhO
yon
- as archaic English equivalent of "tu": Demonstrative pro-sumti: the ti-series
you
- defining: Vocative scales
you're welcome
- "fi'i" contrasted with "je'e": Vocative scales
- "je'e" contrasted with "fi'i": Vocative scales
you-cmavo
- example: lujvo based on pro-sumti
you-talk
- example: lujvo based on pro-sumti
younger: Comparatives and superlatives, Comparatives and superlatives

Z

z
- "z" instead of "'" in acronyms names based on lerfu words: Acronyms
zbalermorna
- non-standard Lojban orthography: Oddball orthographies
zero
- relation to negation boundary: Negation boundaries
zero to one: Logical and non-logical connectives within mekso
Zipf's Law: Considerations for making lujvo