[lojban-beginners] Re: du & mintu

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 17 April 2009 15:10:08 Luke Bergen wrote:
> 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

la tcan. dunli la .en. le ka jgina .i la tcan. na du la .en .i xu la tcan. 
mintu la .en?

(I had a hard time typing that. I kept typing "e.n.")

mu'omi'e .pier.