From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Mar 25 20:07:02 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:07:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DF2Zb-00074t-BE for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:06:55 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DF2Zb-00074m-93 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:06:55 -0800 Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:06:55 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: tanru Message-ID: <20050326040655.GN10094@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <1349197024.20050325185654@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1349197024.20050325185654@yandex.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 9650 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:56:54PM +0300, Aleksej R. Serdyukov wrote: > > coi ro do > > (I am ill now, so excuse me if I write some gibberish or act > stupid) > > "ti [cu] cmalu nanla ckule [vau] > This is-a small- boys school. > This is a school for small boys." > > How do I know that this is not: > > This-thing is-small in-dimension-"boy" as-compared-with-standard > "school" > > , e.g., "Boy of this thing is small by standard "school"" > ? You don't; tanru are fuzzy. All you know is that it's a school, and it has something to do with boys that have something to do with small-ness. tanru group to the right by default, so cmalu modifies nanlu, and cmalu nanla modifies ckule. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/