[lojban-beginners] Re: x2, x3 and x4 of tcadu

[Jan Pilgenroeder <pille@mac.com>]

Am Dienstag, 22.04.03 um 01:36 Uhr schrieb Robin Lee Powell:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:45:05PM +0200, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> > The 4th place structure is the least easy and clear-cut to fill
> > in, because the "area served by a city" rarely has a name of it
> > own. I have approximated this by saying that the city serves the
> > state it's in, but this is perhaps accurate only for state
> > capitals.
>
> Here in the US we have 'counties', which are ve tcadu, and I suspect
> that may be why tcadu has that place.  It certainly was hard to get
> used to when I moved here.

Aren't counties also political (or at least administrative) units?

I think this place structure really becomes useful when you want to 
make a point about economic relations that don't fit national borders 
or only span part of that political unit, like a border town that gets 
much more business from abroad than from the country it belongs to.

Also when I say "mi zvati le veltcadu be fo la xamburg" I don't imply 
that I am living closer to Hamburg than e.g. Bremen, but that Hamburg 
is the place where I go when I need to go shopping for stuff you don't 
get in small towns (even though I might actually be living closer to 
Bremen).

Bye,
   Jan.

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