Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 18:53:54 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [lojban] Re: Confused about Abstractions
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> Hm, I do understand that you do not make relative clauses like that, 
> because embedding bridi into each other like this does not give you the 
> desired meaning. But I do not understand _why_ that is so. What about the 
> semantics of lo ku and embedding bridi into each other does not yield you 
> this meaning? After all, you place the sumti into the first slot of each 
> higher level selbri wich itels becomes a complex sumti, which should give 
> you the desired meaning on each level recursively, as the meaning of lower 
> levels get enriched by the next higher levels in a recursive fashion. Why 
> is that not the case? 
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0;m=
argin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir=
=3D"ltr"><p lang=3D"en-US" style=3D"margin-bottom:0cm">Hm, I do understand =
that you do not make relative clauses like that, because embedding bridi in=
to each other like this does not give you the desired meaning. But I do not=
 understand _why_ that is so. What about the semantics of lo ku and embeddi=
ng bridi into each other does not yield you this meaning? After all, you pl=
ace the sumti into the first slot of each higher level selbri wich itels be=
comes a complex sumti, which should give you the desired meaning on each le=
vel recursively, as the meaning of lower levels get enriched by the next hi=
gher levels in a recursive fashion. Why is that not the case?
</p></div></blockquote></div>

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