On 22 November 2009, at 9:05 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Saturday 21 November 2009 14:44:45 Joshua Choi wrote:
Got a couple of usages question on the difference between the se cmavo
and the sel rafsi. Is there any difference between "ti se citka mi"
and "ti selcti mi"? Or "ta se klani" and "ta selklani"? One forms
phrasesâdon't know if you'd call them "tanru"âand the other forms words
âwhich probably count as lujvo. And don't lujvo have "specified"
meanings that are more specific than their corresponding tanru? Does
that affect words like selcti?
Generally there's no difference, as "se citka" is not a tanru. If "seltci"
(or "selbo'e") is used in a lujvo, though, then there is a
difference. "selcajlanci" means "flag that symbolizes something traded",
i.e. "trademark", whereas "se canja lanci" could mean that, and could also
mean "flag that is traded".
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Joshua Choi
<joshua@choi.name> wrote:
Thanks
for the reply; I see now. So when it comes to the difference between
pairs like "selbrode" and "selbo'e", there's no difference at all,
right? They're semantically equivalent, and in this case they even have
the same amount of syllables.
So which one do people tend to use? Is there a rule of pragmatics, or does one not have to care at all about it?