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[lojban-beginners] Re: cibyseltuple



On 7/3/09, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm wondering about the lujvo "cibyseltuple". A "seltuple" would be
> something with a leg. So "cibyseltuple" would be "three somethings
> with legs", right?

Something with three legs. Compare with the classic "pavyseljirna".
Also "relselxi'u", although people seem to prefer "relxilma'e".

> 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.

"Three-legged", "seltuple be ci da". But I don't think an algorithm to
gloss any lujvo based only on its rafsi would be at all easy to come
up with.

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