Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id IAA28170 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 1995 08:44:00 -0400 Message-Id: <199510141244.IAA28170@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id BD05B08D ; Sat, 14 Oct 1995 8:44:29 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 13:42:38 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: katna X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan Status: OR X-From-Space-Date: Sat Oct 14 08:44:04 1995 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Jorge: > > The existing structure is better. Cutting at minimum requires a blade > > and a cuttee. There needn't be an agent. > There's already {dakfu} for non-agentive cutting. That's knives rather than blades in general. Can a sheet of paper really be a dakfu? It can be a katna. Also, the x2 of {dakfu} is not something that actually gets cut, but rather is something that it is the tool's purpose to cut. > i ue le jinci enai la lorenas cu katna le pinji be le ly speni uenai lo dakfu gau la djudit cu katna lo stedu be la xolofernes --- And