On 8 February 2013 04:21, la gleki <gleki.is...@gmail.com> wro= te:
>
>
> On Friday, February 8, 2013 10:48:26 AM UTC+4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, February 07, 2013 21:18:13 la gleki wrote:
>> > Many are speaking these days about internal place structu= re of brivla
>> > (relations between djuno2 and djuno3 is one example) whic= h has been
>> > probably inspired by gua\spi.
>> >
>> > I just found another example, a little more interesting.
>> >
>> > {cortu} x1 hurts/feels pain/hurt at locus x2.
>> >
>> > What this brivla should really look like is
>> > {ko'a cortu lo broda be vo'a}
>> > e.g.
>> > {mi cortu lo stedu be mi}
>> > {mi cortu lo tuple be mi}
>> >
>> > But if we remove one of {mi} in any example this won'= t lead to any
>> > ambiguity. Indeed, where can i feel pain if not in some p= art of me?
>> > Of course such technologies as described in Avatar film m= ight raise this
>> > question again but even then the avatar controlled by you= would be a
>> > part
>> > of your double body.
>>
>> This is called a twiddler, as "mi cortu lo birka be do&qu= ot; is nonsensical in
>> the
>> same way that "I twiddle your thumbs" is. Similarly:
>> .i mi darxi do lo birka be fo'a lo trixe be ko'a
>> .i mi sanli lo loldi lo jamfu be do
>> See http://kith.org/logos/words/lower/t.html .
>
>
> Thanks for the link. The "problem" appeared when i tried= to translate the
> following sentence from Tatoeba.
>
> "My back hurts."
>
> If we assume that back is {bekpi} (cuz Robin needed a gismu for it= )
> then we have three options.
>
> 1. mi cortu lo bekpi
> 2. cortu lo bekpi be mi
> 3. mi cortu lo bekpi be mi
>
> The third solution is verbose and therefore doesn't reflect re= lations
> between sumti in a nice way.
> I guess Lojban is just unable to express this in a more concise wa= y.
> May be
> 4. bekpi je selcortu mi ?
>
> I wish I could bind {bekpi} and {selcortu} with {du} but I can'= ;t.
>
>
>>
>> Pierre
>> --
>> I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I= 'm in Wales.
>>
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On 8 February 2013 04:21, la gleki <gleki.is...@g= mail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Friday, February 8, 2013 10:48:26 AM UTC+4, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, February 07, 2013 21:18:13 la gleki wrote:
>> > Many are speaking these days about internal place structu= re of brivla
>> > (relations between djuno2 and djuno3 is one example) whic= h has been
>> > probably inspired by gua\spi.
>> >
>> > I just found another example, a little more interesting.
>> >
>> > {cortu} x1 hurts/feels pain/hurt at locus x2.
>> >
>> > What this brivla should really look like is
>> > {ko'a cortu lo broda be vo'a}
>> > e.g.
>> > {mi cortu lo stedu be mi}
>> > {mi cortu lo tuple be mi}
>> >
>> > But if we remove one of {mi} in any example this won'= t lead to any
>> > ambiguity. Indeed, where can i feel pain if not in some p= art of me?
>> > Of course such technologies as described in Avatar film m= ight raise this
>> > question again but even then the avatar controlled by you= would be a
>> > part
>> > of your double body.
>>
>> This is called a twiddler, as "mi cortu lo birka be do&qu= ot; is nonsensical in
>> the
>> same way that "I twiddle your thumbs" is. Similarly:
>> .i mi darxi do lo birka be fo'a lo trixe be ko'a
>> .i mi sanli lo loldi lo jamfu be do
>> See http://kith.org/logos/words/lower/t.html .
>
>
> Thanks for the link. The "problem" appeared when i tried= to translate the
> following sentence from Tatoeba.
>
> "My back hurts."
>
> If we assume that back is {bekpi} (cuz Robin needed a gismu for it= )
> then we have three options.
>
> 1. mi cortu lo bekpi
> 2. cortu lo bekpi be mi
> 3. mi cortu lo bekpi be mi
>
> The third solution is verbose and therefore doesn't reflect re= lations
> between sumti in a nice way.
> I guess Lojban is just unable to express this in a more concise wa= y.
> May be
> 4. bekpi je selcortu mi ?
>
> I wish I could bind {bekpi} and {selcortu} with {du} but I can'= ;t.
>
>
>>
>> Pierre
>> --
>> I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I= 'm in Wales.
>>
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