[lojban-beginners] Re: gusni

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But that doesn't seem to add anything.
>
> Well, that's what I'm trying to get at. It seems a bit redundant when
> you actually put it in there, but without it, to me, the sentence
> seems a bit vague. "which is lit by things making up a line hanging
> from the ceiling". What things? We can infer that they're some sort of
> light source, but it's odd to need to infer that.

If we had an independent word for "lamp", it could make sense
to use it, but if the only available word is just "thing that emits light",
then specifying that the things that emit light are things that emit light
doesn't do much. What's the difference between:

  ti se gusni fi so'i da

and:

  ti se gusni fi so'i te gusni

mu'o mi'e xorxes