[lojban-beginners] Re: du & mintu

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

mmm, good point.  Again, I'm really not sure about this so please, anyone with more experience jump in if I have this wrong but the way I see it is as follows:

du creates the closest relationship in saying that these two labels refer to the same actual object

mintu is next in that it says that the two objects are "interchangeable" so they are identical in every conceivable way but are still two distinct objects.

dunli means that the two objects are congruent/equal to but since it gives the x3 position to specify in what property they are equal I understand dunli to mean that they are equal in some way, not necissarily in EVERY way.

long story short:  IMO du makes labels refer to same object.  mintu makes distinct objects identical.  dunli makes two distinct objects equal in some property x3

 - Luke Bergen

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:49 PM, tijlan <pascal.akihiko@gmail.com> wrote:

2009/4/17 Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>:

> But "this stick mintu that stick"
> is to say that there are two different actual objects but that their attributes are identical.

Couldn't that also be "this stick dunli that stick"? In fact, "mintu"
has no terbri for "the attributes in which the two sticks are
identical", while "dunli" has (x3).

mu'o mi'e tijlan