From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Aug 26 20:33:52 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MgVkG-0006KG-4i for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:33:52 -0700 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.121]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MgVkC-0006Jx-Oi for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:33:51 -0700 Received: from chausie ([71.75.215.96]) by cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090827033342026.PARO6799@cdptpa-omta04.mail.rr.com> for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:33:42 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chausie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F65E3512 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:33:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: as though Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:33:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <5715b9300908251541m363ca5ecqd59d5542cefafb29@mail.gmail.com> <200908260708.40011.phma@phma.optus.nu> <4de8c3930908261821h7de0238fid34f3279cc7e5c07@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4de8c3930908261821h7de0238fid34f3279cc7e5c07@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908262333.37355.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-archive-position: 2122 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Wednesday 26 August 2009 21:21:06 tijlan wrote: > 2009/8/26 Pierre Abbat : > > Actually I thought of "tai" first, but "ko bajra tai lo nu da'i lo tirxu > > cu jersi do" doesn't make sense. An event of a tiger chasing doesn't have > > the form of a runner. > > That "tai" is a tag for the bridi, not the terbri/sumti. And the bridi > "ko bajra" is not a runner. So the content of the tag needs no form of > a runner, it seems. "tai" adds a place for something which is like something. The sumti being placed in that place is "lo nu da'i lo tirxu cu jersi do". What is ... hmm, my head's starting to spin. > >"ko bajra tai lo se jersi be lo tirxu" does make sense, > > though. > > Is that more reasonable than "ko pe tai lo se jersi be lo tirxu cu bajra"? I don't think it makes much difference here. I'm getting this image of a man stuck in one window, throwing a ball through another, being watched through a third. Pierre