[lojban-beginners] Re: A few questions...

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

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:17:50PM -0500, Hal Fulton wrote:
> J. Scott Jewell wrote:
> >On 7/22/05, *Hal Fulton* <hal9000@hypermetrics.com
> ><mailto:hal9000@hypermetrics.com>> wrote:
> >    Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
[snip about "batci le gerku le namu va]

> >     > What {va} does here is add an unnumbered place to the
> >     > place structure of {batci}.
> >
> >    Really. I thought I was saying "The dog bit that man over
> >    there." How would I say that then?
> >
> > >From what I can tell, {le gerku cu batci le nanmu va} says something 
> > >like "The dog bit the man, some distance away from here," 

No, it does not.  It says "The dog bites the man some distance from
something unspecified".  It's the same form as {le gerku cu batci le
nanmu va le ckule} (the dog bites the man some distance from the
school), but without filling in the "va" place.

> >while {le gerku cu batci le va nanmu} comes to "The dog bit the
> >somewhat-distant man."

Correct.

> Not irrelevant at all. I'm as confused as a clone on Father's Day.

Heh heh.

-Robin

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