[lojban-beginners] Re: la blupinxe nunjamna

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.

Right, when "ce'u" is not explicit, it could in principle be anything.
The normal interpretation is that "ce'u" goes in the first unfilled
argument place, but that can be overridden by context.

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