On Monday, December = 3, 2012 2:17:13 PM UTC+4, ianek wrote:

On 3 Gru, 05:15, Jonathan Jones <eyeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Annie <park.an...@asb.gaggle= .net> wrote:
> > How do you get "is dedicated to" out of "is related to"?
>
> I'd like to know that myself.
>
> > Besides, someone was trying to say that a more-than-five-lett= er word meaos
> > "dedicate". How is that possible, when it's not a gismu?
>
> I think you're confusing "brivla" and "gismu" here. Firstly, gismu= are not
> the only words in Lojban that mean something. Every native and mos= t
> borrowed words have some kind of meaning. Secondly, there are many
> different kinds of brivla besides gismu, tanru, lujvo, and fu'ivla= being
> the most common, but there are other types I don't feel like getti= ng into
> (, like the kind that use {me}).

I think you're confusing "brivla" and "selbri" here. There are no
brivla besides gismu, lujvo and fu'ivla. tanru is not a word, so it's
not a predicate word.

I also think that lojban-beginners is an awful place to start learning
Lojban. L4B or wave lessons would be much better, but I don't know
about their accessibility for blind people.

mu'o mi'e ianek

>
> selra'a is a lujvo formed from the rafsi of {se} (sel-) and {srana= } (ra'a).
> {se} is a word meaning to switch the first and second places of th= e
> immediately following gismu.
>
> So, if {srana} means "x1 pertains to/.../is about x2.", than {se s= rana}
> (which is the same thing as {selra'a}) means "x1 is what x2 pertai= ns
> to/.../is about."
>
> Again, vlasisku (http://vlasisku.lojban.org) is extremely useful when it
> comes to the meanings of words- that's its entire purpose for exis= tence,
> actually.
>
> As for {si'artersku}, that's formed from the rafsi for, respective= ly,
> sinma, te, and cusku, with the 'r' placed in there for grammatical= reasons.
> I leave it as an exercise for you to figure out what it means, whi= ch is not
> at all difficult to do, as all you need to do is look up the meani= ng of the
> words.
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> > Why do you need two words that mean practically the sam= e in Lojbanhis
> > Isn't that illogicalhis
>
> > Sent from my iPod
>
> > On Dec 2, 2012, at 1:05 AM, la gleki <gleki.is.my.n...@= gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sunday, December 2, 2012 10:52:54 AM UTC+4, aionys wrote:
>
> >> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Jonathan Jones <ey= e...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:09 PM, la gleki <glek= i.is...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>>> On Sunday, December 2, 2012 1:30:39 AM UTC+4, aio= nys wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:17 AM, tijlan <jbot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On 1 December 2012 12:09, ianek <jan...= @gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> > This is just what {se srana} or {sel= ra'a} is.
>
> >>>>>> An about, a thematic focus, is more speci= fic than that. cfika2, for
> >>>>>> instance, may be as much relevant to cfik= a1 as cfika3 may be -- a work
> >>>>>> of fiction cu srana both its plot and its= author (and possibly many
> >>>>>> other things). Consider:
>
> >>>>>> la .alis. cfika sera'a lo nixli
>
> >>>>>> This doesn't necessarily say that the plo= t revolves around a girl --
> >>>>>> it could as well be saying the work is de= dicated to a girl.
>
> >>>>> I'm sorry, I don't see how anything based on = {srana} could possibly
> >>>>> mean "dedicated to". You'll have to explain.
>
> >>>> Well, may be it's not that something is wrong wit= h {sera'a/pe/srana}
> >>>> but rather wrong usage and/or glossing.
>
> >>>> *srana x1 pertains to/is germane/relevant to/conc= erns/is
> >>>> related/associated with/is about x2.*
> >>>> *ckini x1 is related to/associated with/aki= n to x2 by relationship x3.
> >>>> *
>
> >>>> If we arbitrarily chose parts of those definition= s we'd get
> >>>> * srana x1 is relevant to x2
> >>>> ckini x1 is relevant to x2
> >>>> *
> >>>> which is nonsense.
>
> >>> ckini wouldn't be that. For one thing, you left out t= he x3, and for
> >>> another, it isn't "relevant", it's "related". The Col= d War isn't relevant
> >>> to WWII, but it is related (by being a direct result = of it).
>
> >>>> If {srana} really gives us thematic role then all= the other "is
> >>>> relevant to" meanings can be assigned to {ckini/s= eki'i}.
>
> >> Furthermore, your response does not show how one can get = "dedicated to"
> >> out of srana.
>
> > I can't explain tijlan's views.
> > For me "dedicated to..." is {tecu'u}, may be with a shade of = {sinma} (i.e.
> > fi'o sia'rtersku)
> > {finfriti} from jvs doesn't sound right for me (probably due = to polysemy
> > of "to dedicqte").
>
> >> --
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>
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