[lojban-beginners] Re: la blupinxe nunjamna

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Efrain Caro <betsemes@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyway, if we want to be precise to the extent of being paranoid we
> would state it thus:
>
> lo ka ze'e kukte cu te dunli lo cevni ciblu lodo ciblu doi lomi melbi
> cai mensi iu

If you don't want to repeat "ciblu", you could also say:

lo ka ze'e kukte fa lo ciblu (be ce'u) cu te dunli lo cevni do doi lo
melbi cai mensi iu

> It actually makes no sense to state that a vamp is "tasty" when we
> mean their blood is tasty, but the meaning is understood within the
> game.

It's metonymy. It's like saying that an orange is tasty, when it's the
edible part that is tasty.

mu'o mi'e xorxes