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[lojban-beginners] cibyseltuple
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- Subject: [lojban-beginners] cibyseltuple
- From: Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:20:57 -0500
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I'm back to doing lojban some. I'm reading through Alice again using
Lojgloss. Hopefully by the time I'm done all the bugs will be worked
out. :)
I'm wondering about the lujvo "cibyseltuple". A "seltuple" would be
something with a leg. So "cibyseltuple" would be "three somethings
with legs", right? Or are we taking advantage of the ambiguity
inherent in tanru to select the more sensible meaning here? If it's
the latter, that means there's probably no good way to programatically
gloss this lujvo well, as the "cib" applies to the "tuple" part, while
the "fa" place is assigned the "seltuple" part. Which is more mixed up
than any generic algorithm could unmix.
Chris Capel
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