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Subject: [jbovlaste] Re: le'axru dinsauru
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On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:59 AM, A. PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:
> Comments please.
>
>
> 1) le'axru(take back)
>
> lebna: l1 takes l2 (object/property) from l3 (possessor).
> xruti: x1 (agent) returns x2 to origin/earlier state x3 from x4
>
> x1 xruti x2 x3 x4 pu lonu l1 lebna l2 l3
> x1=l1 le'axru x2=l2 x3 x4=l3
> x1=l1 takes back x2=l2 to x3 from x4=l3
>

  I'd get rid of that third argument.  I would assume from "take back"
that x3 is always "lo nu se ponse vo'a".  Do you have any
counterexamples in mind?

> 2) dinsauru(dinosaur)
>
> x1 is a dinosaur of type x2
>

  As long as we're adding this, do you think that maybe "...in era x3"
would be a useful/fitting addition?  It seems to me that that's an
often defining charateristic of dinosauria.

                --gejyspa