[jbovlaste] Re: Alice in Wonderland 12

["A. PIEKARSKI" <totus@rogers.com>]

> >> > Then how would you say 'Paul Revere was an American patriot'?
> >> >
> >>
> >>   la pal.rivir naijgi lo merko
> >>
> >>   Why is that problematic for you?
> >
> > It isn't.  But to me that is exactly what
> > 'j1 is a patriot of nation n1' gives you.
> >
> > The issue seesm to be whether one is patriotic about the nation
> > or its peoples (or something broader as {lo merko} suggests).
> >
> 
>   Possibly, but then how does your queried English sentence illustrate
> that?  My question why is your original definition "X is proud of the
> event of Y being the nation of person Z"?
> 

Ah! Because x1 in many gismu definitions can be singular or plural, 
I interpreted {natmi} as: n1 is a national/nation of peoples n2, and 
therefore j1=n1.  I see that's wrong now.  Thanks for you patience.

totus