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On Saturday 15 October 2011 20:00:14 .arpis. wrote:
> An example sentence is, "I lay down face down on the bed." (as opposed to
> "I lay down face up on the bed.")
>
> {mi pinvre lo ckana fa'a ri} seems to be an incorrect translation, since
> {fa'a} refers to the direction of the event, not the orientation of the
> person.
>
> Would {mi noi farna lo ckana ku pinvre ri} be better?

That means "I, who am a direction of the bed, lie horizontally on it.". I 
think you've found a hole in the vocabulary. I don't remember seeing anything 
meaning "x1 is oriented in orientation x2", either in the gismu or in the 
spatial tenses. "farna" says what the direction of x2 from x3 is, but not how 
either of them is oriented. "carna" says that x1 rotates about axis x2, but 
not what it points at when it's finished.

Nitpick: "I lay down" means "mi punji lo ranpi'u". You mean "I lie down".

Pierre
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