[lojban-beginners] Re: zoi gy. Plato is a friend, but the truth is a greater friend. gy. se fanva fu ma

[ianek <janek37@gmail.com>]

This doesn't say that I love Plato at all, because I can love truth
more than something which I don't love. And I would use {la platon}
since it was his Greek name (Plato is Latin).
So I'd rather say {mi broda la platon i ku'i mi zmadu broda lo ka
jetnu} [{lo jetnu} is a true fact (du'u)]

mu'o mi'e ianek

On 13 Lip, 18:34, Jacob Errington <nicty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 July 2012 12:30, gleki <gleki.is.my.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > or to be more specific how would you solve the problem in this ad hoc
> > sentence
> > "I love Plato but i love jetnu more".
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> {.i la plat se zmadu lo jetnu lo ni mi [whatever selbri is actually
> appropriate: pendo, xendo, prami, something] ce'u}
> or, with (slightly) less contrived syntax: {.i mi [that selbri] jai te
> zmadu la plat lo jetnu}
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