[lojban-beginners] Re: Moon River

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:36:32PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
>  While we're on the topic of names, suppose I wish to address Moon
>  River (which incidentally is wider than a mile), to tell the
>  river that I am determined to eventually cross it in style.

I would first ask what is wrong with you that you're talking to a
river.

>  Let's not answer all the challenges in that sentence at one time.
>  First, the name. Of course it's not really a lunar river. So it
>  seems that a tanru, {doi lunra rirxe} is not what I'm looking
>  for. {doi la lunra rirxe} would be a name, "moon river," 

Those two are equivalent; doi takes only names.

> but that seems to overlook the fact that it's not just named
> "river", it really is a river. I guess I want to say "O river
> 'moon'!" but I would not want to be wordy and say {doi rirxe poi
> zo lunra cmene ke'a} "Oh river, specifically such that "lunar" is
> the name of it!"

doi rirxe po'u la lunra

-Robin

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