From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Mar 10 14:10:21 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lh9DR-0005nN-0O for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:10:21 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lh9DQ-0005nF-Uu for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:10:20 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:10:20 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: vreta Message-ID: <20090310211020.GO11968@digitalkingdom.org> References: <5715b9300903101354n1f06bcfbmc485a82c5b8b25df@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5715b9300903101354n1f06bcfbmc485a82c5b8b25df@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 1407 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:54:07PM -0400, Luke Bergen wrote: > So in my dictionary I have the following definition: > vreta vre reclining 'rest' x1 > lies/rests/reclines/reposes on x2; x1 is reclining/recumbent/lying on > x2 an 68 (cf. cpana, surla, zutse, ckana, lazni) > > Why would a gismu have a definition like "ing"? Because "Bob is reclining on the couch" is just the present tense activity; blame the copula. > It seems like the definition should be "recline" and to get > "reclining" you would have to say "nu vreta". No, you would use nu for "I'm watching Bob reclining on the couch.". mi viska le nu la .bab. cu vreta le sfofa I'm not at all sure I understand what's confusing you, I'm afraid. -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/