[lojban-beginners] Re: la blupinxe nunjamna

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

2010/3/7 Jorge LlambÃas <jjllambias@gmail.com>:
>> 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.

But "lo ka ze'e kukte" does not specifically state that what is tasty
is the vamp, even though the comparison is made of "do" (the vamp) to
"lo cevni", right? The x1 of this "kukte" could be "lo ciblu be ce'u",
which wouldn't be metonymy.


mu'o mi'e tijlan