From pnewton@gmx.de Mon Mar 08 08:05:04 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Mon, 08 Mar 2004 08:05:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsread1.arcor-online.net ([151.189.0.146] helo=postman.arcor.de) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B0NFD-0008LZ-FF for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2004 08:04:50 -0800 Received: from hamwpne1 (cou.ch [212.13.198.90]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor.de (8.13.0.PreAlpha4/8.13.0.PreAlpha4) with ESMTP id i28G4Stv007412 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:04:29 +0100 (MET) From: "Philip Newton" Organization: datenrevision GmbH & Co. OHG To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:04:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: Feedback on phrases Message-ID: <404CA79A.26773.1C2BCB1@localhost> Priority: normal References: <20040308004413.K8729@fresco.Math.McGill.CA> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-archive-position: 586 X-Approved-By: pnewton@gmx.de X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: pnewton@gmx.de Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On 8 Mar 2004 at 6:04, Adam D. Lopresto wrote: > If you really want to get away without the other selbri, you can make > palku the main selbri But then the main thought of the sentence would be about something being trousers - after all, that's kind of the definition of the selbri: the relationship between the other arguments. But the main thought of the original sentence is about location, not about something being trousers. The fact that it's trousers he's seeking the location of is secondary. mu'o mi'e .filip. -- filip.niutyn. li te'o te'a ka'o bi'e pi'i pai su'i pa du li no