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Re: [bpfk] Finishing the BPFK sections




On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:53 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
Jorge Llambías scripsit:

> I think that "in front of X" always means in the direction in which X is
> facing, and that objects without natural faces acquire a nonce face such
> that they are facing the speaker (or at whatever the point of view is). So
> ca'u/ti'a X are effectively equivalent to zo'i/ze'o X when X doesn't have
> its own permanent face.

Sounds right to me, and it also explains "left of" and "right of".

Not exactly in the same way, because faceless objects don't acquire a left and a right corresponding to their acquired front face (their acquired left and right, if they do have ones, would correspond to a face facing in the same way the speaker/point-of-view is facing, not facing towards the speaker. So "in-front-of/behind the column" behave as if the column was a person facing the speaker, but "left-of/right-of the column" behave as if the column was a person facing the same was as the speaker. So above/below, in-front-of/behind, and left-of/right-of each follow their own slightly different rules.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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