[lojban-beginners] Re: learning to climb on floors

["Wim Coenen" <wcoenen@gmail.com>]

2007/10/23, John Daigle <johnpdaigle@gmail.com>:

In re: 'cilre cpare'

If x1 is "learning-crawling" does this imply that x1 is both learning and crawling, with an emphasis on crawling? Could this translate as  "practicing crawling"? Or is this tandu just meaningless?

The place structure of "cilre cpare" is that of the last gismu, "cpare". "cilre" modifies the meaning of "cpare", but lojban does not specify how. "mi cilre cpare" may mean:
"I (am learning to) crawl"

But It could also be interpreted as:
"I crawl (as a demonstration, to teach crawling)".

It is safer to avoid tanru if you don't want to be ambiguous. This is why Pierre rewrote your example as "
la kan,r. cilre fi lo nu cpare".

mu'o mi'e .uim