From cowan Mon Feb 12 11:53:14 1996 Subject: Re: steven on john's fuzz moot From: John Cowan To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:53:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199602101445.JAA08992@locke.ccil.org> from "ucleaar" at Feb 10, 96 02:13:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 917 Message-ID: la .and. cusku di'e > Rather, [na'e] modifies the selbri. But in some rather murky ways. For > example, does {nae broda} mean "non broda; the complement of broda" > or "something other than broda"? The latter. There is no direct way to express the former in selbri position, except for the lujvo "narbroda"; as a sumti, it is "lo na broda". > Does "mi jea xi .5 cilre lo cukta" > mean that there is a book that I half read - that I am in a relationship > of half-reading with. Or does it mean that I have the property of > having half read a book. Another possibly less confusing example: > does "mi jea xi .5 se stedu da" mean "there is something with which > I am in a relationship of quasiheadedness" or "I half have a head"? Got me, which is why I didn't (intend to) propose je'axi, but rather ja'axi. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.