From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Mon Sep 6 21:38:24 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 6 Sep 1993 15:40:23 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 6 Sep 1993 15:40:19 -0400 Message-Id: <199309061940.AA15711@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8015; Mon, 06 Sep 93 15:38:45 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 7951; Mon, 06 Sep 93 15:41:36 EDT Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 20:38:24 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK Sender: Lojban list From: Mr Andrew Rosta Subject: Re: possible sumti-raising place structures of the sisku variety X-To: lojban@cuvma.BITNET To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: (Your message of Mon, 06 Sep 93 11:11:42 W.) <9309060712.AA101421@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk> Status: RO X-Status: Nick says: > #> ckana bed x1 is a bed/pallet of material x2 for holding/supporting x3 > #> (person/object/event) > #I don't understand "event" here. How can an event be supported by a bed? > > Cleverness about copulation aside, beds support *people* doing things, not > the things themselves. Kill the event. Better to spare the event, and change wording to: x1 is a bed of material x2 & is locus of (person/object/event) x3 In any case, if an event can have a location then I don't see why it can't be supported. ----------- And