Received: from mail-vw0-f61.google.com ([209.85.212.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Pl0wW-00013x-B3; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:18:00 -0800 Received: by vws1 with SMTP id 1sf597968vws.16 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:17:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version :in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vet2byTJPVWb0KPRnShaevZ3hkaCbHeOHfI5nPt0dVQ=; b=mvNLSSiWHdKTo0mdgijnNLmRs2/u3r4DfRzMxiRpy8c/xgQZBtbqQFswy+nCz2oGtL 3Iufz2dPagqOHR26kGBpY77bdfZymLRBtY9Sb1D0g2sKVeQCudoqWM1e1gioNAWcktsb byj2n1ZeK7ZkMI6M/EqUSmhKspyvgiTK3Y0PQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=04v55yX6aTyuV1fyv5OZy3HlPpPdBUG50omNp63pXg4y0thqDMrKX8GagKzdOtgQa9 oPhjd6Yr9demiz0ApmcpZhpswKrg9T1PR8hlXJEwjulZrOgBRd/JSz+xPgOYNtszR5DJ nrXG+xpW3gz/Ch9VCeSQZ7iX5RiLxt5Y7Na9g= Received: by 10.220.178.67 with SMTP id bl3mr678791vcb.25.1296746259218; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:17:39 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.220.67.197 with SMTP id s5ls259503vci.2.p; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:17:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.194.7 with SMTP id dw7mr2335815vcb.7.1296746257846; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:17:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.194.7 with SMTP id dw7mr2335814vcb.7.1296746257827; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:17:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x13si120402vcr.7.2011.02.03.07.17.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of mturniansky@gmail.com designates 209.85.216.54 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.216.54; Received: by qwj9 with SMTP id 9so1011920qwj.41 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:17:36 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.37.80 with SMTP id w16mr9828177qad.186.1296746256448; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.249.206 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:17:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20110202194422.GC54504@alice.local> <201102022216.26133.phma@phma.optus.nu> <20110203143926.GA56439@alice.local> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:17:36 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] lo nu valsi rapli cu xe tanru fo ma From: Michael Turniansky To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: mturniansky@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of mturniansky@gmail.com designates 209.85.216.54 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=mturniansky@gmail.com; dkim=pass (test mode) header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 8775 No, no. Your definition is better. Sorry. Of course it makes sense that the x2 would be the grandchild, and the x3 relegated to a subbridi. --gejyspa On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Luke Bergen wrote: > whoops, I guess my guess at the definition of it was wrong then. =A0I ass= ume > that a gloss like "grandmother" would leave the grandchild as the x2. =A0= Seems > like a more important place. =A0But I guess that's arbitrary. =A0There is= no > definition of mamymamta in jbovlaste. =A0Maybe when I get home from work = I'll > add it (unless someone beats me to it... or I forget). > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Michael Turniansky > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:39 AM, .alyn.post. >> wrote: >> > Will you help clarify some confusion I'm having, then?: >> > >> > lo mamta =A0 =A0=3D> mother >> (a/some mothers) >> > lo se mamta =3D> child =A0(not quite the right gloss, I don't think th= at >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 matters in this case) >> (child of a mother) >> > mamta =A0 =A0 =A0 =3D> mothering/motherness? >> > >> >> =A0 =A0No. =A0"mamta" is not "mothering/motherness" That would be "ka >> mamta". =A0"mamta" is a relationship. =A0Something m1 is the mother of >> something else, m2. >> >> > lo ponse =A0 =A0=3D> owner >> an owner/some owners >> > lo se ponse =3D> possesion >> Yes, if you mean that as a noun -- a possession/some possessions. >> > ponse =A0 =A0 =A0 =3D> possessing/ownership? >> >> =A0No. =A0That would be nu ponse, or ka ponse, or za'i ponse, depending >> on how you mean it. =A0 Again, it's a relationship. =A0"p1 is the >> possessor of p2 under law p3" >> >> > >> > I don't quite get how one gets grandmother out of mamymamta, though >> > I've confused the special significance that an x1 place has before. >> > >> > It seems in this case though that mamymamta either takes one meaning >> > for the first mam (mothering) and another meaning for the second >> > (mother), or that my gloss for mamta is wrong and it doesn't express >> > motherness at all, but an actual mother. >> > >> > What am not understanding? >> > >> >> =A0Remember that a tanru, "x1 mamta mamta x2", means that x1 is a >> mother type of mother of x2. =A0The exact relationship between the >> seltau and the tertau is up to the user. =A0Just like a "barda gerku" is >> a "big type of dog" (presumably a big dog, "ko'a cu barda je gerku", >> but maybe, for example, a type of dog that a big person would own >> ("ko'a me lo gerku da'i po lo barda")) or a "gerku ponse" is a "dog >> type of owner", presumably a dog owner ("ko'a cu ponse lo gerku") but >> possibly describing my dog up above ("ko'a cu gerku je ponse"), or >> possibly some other type of relationship ("ko'a ponse fi tu'a lo >> gerku", he possess things the way a dog thinks about possession (i.e. >> it's here, it's mine). =A0So a mamta mamta is most probably "ko'a cu >> mamta lo mamta", but it could also be many other things)). =A0But once >> you lujvoize it, it has only one meaning, the one the author defines, >> which in this case is exactly that meaning. =A0"x1 is the mother of x2, >> who is the mother x3" >> >> =A0Have I helped clear up anything? >> >> > -Alan >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 09:26:02AM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote: >> >> =A0 =A0that makes the most sense to me.. although my first thought wh= en I >> >> saw >> >> =A0 =A0{ponse ponse} was something like {ba'e ponse}... not that I kn= ow >> >> what the >> >> =A0 =A0difference between {ponse} and {ba'e ponse} is but... that was= my >> >> first >> >> =A0 =A0thought. (though as I said, I do like gejyspa's interpretation >> >> better). >> >> >> >> =A0 =A0On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Michael Turniansky >> >> =A0 =A0<[1]mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0An owner of an owner, I suppose... >> >> >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0lo mi gerku cu ponse lo bolci .iseni'ibo mi ponse ponse >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0--gejyspa >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Pierre Abbat >> >> <[2]phma@phma.optus.nu> >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0wrote: >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> On Wednesday 02 February 2011 14:44:22 .alyn.post. wrote= : >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0>> .i fo ma fu lo nu valsi rapli cu tanru .i lu ponse pons= e li'u >> >> mupli >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0>> >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0>> What does word doubling mean in a tanru? For example: {= ponse >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0>> ponse} >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> "klakyklaku klakyklaku klaku" is used in The Restaurant = of Many >> >> Orders >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> for "cried and cried and cried and cried and cried". "ma= mymamta" >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0(lujvo jenai >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> tanru) means "maternal grandmother", and similarly "pafp= atfu". >> >> I'm not >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0sure >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> what "ponse ponse" would mean. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> Pierre >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> -- >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when= I'm in >> >> Wales. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> -- >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> You received this message because you are subscribed to = the >> >> Google >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> To post to this group, send email to >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0[3]lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0[4]lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> For more options, visit this group at >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0[5]http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den= . >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0> >> >> >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0-- >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0You received this message because you are subscribed to th= e Google >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0To post to this group, send email to >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0[6]lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0[7]lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0For more options, visit this group at >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0[8]http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den= . >> >> >> >> =A0 =A0-- >> >> =A0 =A0You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go= ogle >> >> Groups >> >> =A0 =A0"Lojban Beginners" group. >> >> =A0 =A0To post to this group, send email to >> >> lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. >> >> =A0 =A0To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> =A0 =A0lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> >> =A0 =A0For more options, visit this group at >> >> =A0 =A0http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. >> >> >> >> References >> >> >> >> =A0 =A0Visible links >> >> =A0 =A01. mailto:mturniansky@gmail.com >> >> =A0 =A02. mailto:phma@phma.optus.nu >> >> =A0 =A03. mailto:lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com >> >> =A0 =A04. mailto:lojban-beginners%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com >> >> =A0 =A05. http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den >> >> =A0 =A06. mailto:lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com >> >> =A0 =A07. mailto:lojban-beginners%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com >> >> =A0 =A08. http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den >> > >> > -- >> > .i ko djuno fi le do sevzi >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com= . >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. >> > >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group= s >> "Lojban Beginners" group. >> To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lojban Beginners" group. > To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=3Den. > --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= Lojban Beginners" group. 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