Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 17:26:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801072226.RAA23730@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Colin Fine Sender: Lojban list From: Colin Fine Subject: Re: Adjectives X-To: Lojban list To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <884129579.0519915.0@listserv.cuny.edu> X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1085 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Jan 7 17:26:45 1998 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU vecu'u le notci po'u <884129579.0519915.0@listserv.cuny.edu> la Chris Bogart cu cusku di'e > >>>Page 13 in the book says that the x2 position for cutci specifies the >>>foot that is wearing the shoe. I am simply using "mi", to indicate me >>>(my foot). Is this valid? > >>Yes > >Why? I may be stepping in a minefield here (and I don't want to reopen the cusku controversy); but I understand a se cusku to mean anything that can wear a shoe: a foot, a person, a dummy, a stilt. I regard specification of sumti places (in a gi'uste) as diagnostic, not definitive (except for certain categories such as abstractions and sets). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Colin Fine 66 High Ash, Shipley, W Yorks. BD18 1NE, UK | | Tel: 01274 592696/0976 635354 e-mail: colin@kindness.demon.co.uk | | "Don't just do something! Stand there!" | | - from 'Behold the Spirit' (workshop) | -----------------------------------------------------------------------