Re: [bpfk] Finishing the BPFK sections

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Adam Lopresto scripsit:

> I'd like to see some of the Non-Contact Spatials spelled out a little more
> clearly. In particular, I think the intention is that {ri'u ko'a broda}
> assumes that {ko'a} has an orientation, and that the event of {broda}-ing
> is to {ko'a}'s right, and that the speaker's location and orientation are
> irrelevant, [...]

That was my understanding when I wrote the Red Book.

> Same question for {ca'u} and {ti'a}. "In front of X" can mean "between me
> and X" ("a shadow passed in front of the moon"), or it could mean "in the
> direction that X is facing". 

The question here is, which way does the Moon face?  My intuition says that
it faces the Earth, so "in front of the moon" means the same thing under
either interpretation.

selpa'i scripsit:

> To me it's not about the facing of the tagged sumti. Some things do
> not even have an intrinsic orientation.

In that case, it doesn't make sense to use "left of" or "right of" in
the object-centric context.

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