Re: [jboske] Re: [lojban] tautologies

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la xod cusku di'e

> fi'o jdima fe'u vecnu je'u ta mi
> With price, I certainly buy it.
>
> No, it doesn't cleanly translate into English, but I think it's not a
> stretch to imagine this becoming idiomatic.

That it doesn't cleanly translate into English doesn't bother
me at all, but I don't see why it would be a good idiom.
{bai vecnu je'u ta mi} means that I buy it under compulsion,
it does not mean that I buy it whoever forces me to do it.

> > >fancu lo velvecnu le jei mi tervecnu kei nodada'o
> > >(My buying of it is orthogonal to its price)
> > But that doesn't say that I buy it. Eventually it might
> > mean that whether I buy it or not does not depend on
> > what the price is.
> Eventually?

Assuming {fancu} can be used that way. But that use doesn't
make a lot of sense to me.

> You're right that it doesn't say that you'll buy it. How about:
>
> fancu ro velvecnu le jei mi tervecnu kei lipa
> For every price, the truth value of whether or not I buy it is unity.

The idea I think is essentially correct. The way you express
it in Lojban to me makes very little sense.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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