From lojbab@access.digex.net Sat Mar 6 22:44:56 2010 Date: Tue May 23 02:09:53 1995 From: Bob LeChevalier Subject: Re: Revenge of the Fat Gismu (no longer Re: TEXT: le gunse ku joi le lorxu) To: "Dylan P. Thurston" X-From-Space-Date: Tue May 23 02:09:53 1995 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab@access.digex.net Message-ID: <0eKOAQhlP-B.A.8lE.ot0kLB@chain.digitalkingdom.org> > > One just has to be wary NOT to use a brivla > > metaphorically unless you can metaphorize all of the places of the place > > structure. > >Yes, good advice; PROVIDED the gismu doesn't have extraneous places. > >A good (very long-term) project would be to give examples for the gismu >list, covering both allowed and disallowed usages. In particular, this >would guarantee that all the places can be filled reasonably concisely, >something I sometimes get suspicious about. I would never promise that all gismu places could be filled concisely. Some are present merely to remind us that their existence should be noted in determining whether a statement is true or not. Thus you should not claim that "ko'a mluni le toknu" unless you are indeed asserting that there exist relevant orbital parameters. It isn't necessary to state them concisely, but it is necessary that there be some value that could be filled in if someone really cared. lojbab