[lojban-beginners] Re: "The pen is mightier than the sword."

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

2009/8/22 Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>:
> my lojban is nowhere near good enough to be able to understand discussion
> about lojban in lojban. Could someone give me a brief synopsis of what's
> being said here:Â I gather that it's a minor disagreement having something
> to do with stress/emphasis of sumti?

Maybe {basna} was a bad choice. I meant the weight that a sumti has in
a sentence. To me, a terbri sumti seems at least syntactically
weightier than a tagged sumti. In {lo xarci cu vlipa mau lo pinsi},
{lo pinsi} is a tagged sumti, while {lo xarci} is the x1 terbri of the
main selbri, from which I tend to assume that {lo xarci} is meant to
have a more important place within the expression than {lo pinsi} is.
On the other hand, in {lo pinsi cu vlimau lo xarci}, the two sumti are
equal in that both of them relate to the selbri as a terbri. And i
think such syntactically balanced opposition of the sumti is more
effectual in translating the phrase in question.