[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban for beginners

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

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 20:34:11 MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> I think you have misunderstood.
> I interpret the comment to mean that the combination of "facki" (discover)
> and "cnino" (new) is redundant.  If something is discovered, it's new, and
> that fact doesn't need to be stated explicitly; it's inherent in the
> meaning of "facki".
> I think I agree.

lo se facki could be not new. It could be merely previously unknown to le 
facki. If I go to Raleigh by a route other than the 77-85-70 one I took 
decades ago (or just 85-70, since I now live just 200 m from I-85), and other 
than the route Greyhound takes, mi facki lo pluta la carlyt. bi'o la ralix., 
even if Foulain Untel has taken that route a hundred times.

Pierre