[lojban-beginners] Re: as though

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

in what way Pierre?  Just the in-directness/mental juggling of cmavo being done?

It seems like such a rudimentary concept.  I was kind of surprised that I didn't get a half-canned response from one of the veteran jbopre.  Has this question never come up before?

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

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