[lojban-beginners] Re: as though

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

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 21:21:06 tijlan wrote:
> 2009/8/26 Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>:
> > Actually I thought of "tai" first, but "ko bajra tai lo nu da'i lo tirxu
> > cu jersi do" doesn't make sense. An event of a tiger chasing doesn't have
> > the form of a runner.
>
> That "tai" is a tag for the bridi, not the terbri/sumti. And the bridi
> "ko bajra" is not a runner. So the content of the tag needs no form of
> a runner, it seems.

"tai" adds a place for something which is like something. The sumti being 
placed in that place is "lo nu da'i lo tirxu cu jersi do". What is ... hmm, 
my head's starting to spin.

> >"ko bajra tai lo se jersi be lo tirxu" does make sense,
> > though.
>
> Is that more reasonable than "ko pe tai lo se jersi be lo tirxu cu bajra"?

I don't think it makes much difference here. I'm getting this image of a man 
stuck in one window, throwing a ball through another, being watched through a 
third.

Pierre