Subject: Re: [lojban] RE:literalism

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:11:22 GMT

la pycyn cusku di'e

>And what is special about the last place?

The last component of a lujvo is special in one respect,
the x1 place of the lujvo will correspond with the x1
place of the last component. That is not really a prescriptive
rule as much as a descriptive one. It would be interesting
to see if there are exceptions.

That is why I think for example that a lujvo that means
"drowns" can't possibly end in -mro, because {morsi} means
"dead" not "dies", so even though the ideas are certainly
related, the actual meaning of the word is important.
The lujvo in -mro could mean "drowned", but not "drowns".
"Becomes dead" can't be {binxymorsi}, it has to be
{morsybinxo}. Are these really totally unfounded rules?

co'o mi'e xorxes

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