Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:52:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712200052.TAA00672@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Sender: Lojban list From: JORGE JOAQUIN LLAMBIAS Subject: Re: wants and needs X-To: lojban To: John Cowan Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 666 X-From-Space-Date: Fri Dec 19 19:52:08 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU >> mi cu nitcu la feraris. le nu se djica ninmu > >Question: is {la feraris.} the appropriate way to refer to the brand >name of a car? It might be, but then the brand is not what was needed, perhaps {lu'a la feraris}: a member of the class called Ferrari. There's also the problem of what goes in the x2 of nitcu. We don't want to assert that there is some Ferrari such that I need it. I would say: mi nitcu le nu mi se karcrferari kei le nu mi se djica loi ninmu I need to be ferraried in order to be desired by women. [{karcrferari} inherits the place structure of {karce}: "x1 is a Ferrari for carrying x2 propelled by x3".] co'o mi'e xorxes