On 4 December 2012 10:12, Jonathan Jones <
eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:36 AM, tijlan <
jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 3 December 2012 04:15, Jonathan Jones <
eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Annie <
park.annie@asb.gaggle.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> How do you get "is dedicated to" out of "is related to"?
>> >
>> >
>> > I'd like to know that myself.
>>
>> If I wrote a book in dedication to koha and made that explicit on a
>> page, a link would have been created between the book and koha.
>> Suppose koha is a high-profile celebrity and my book happens to be
>> monumentally controversial for its own content; koha's manager doesn't
>> appreciate the publicized unduly link and calls me demanding that {lo
>> cukta co'u srana ko'a tai zo'e}, where {zo'e} refers to the fact that
>> koha's name is on the book's particular page unrelated to the book's
>> topic itself.
>>
>> mu'o
>
>
> Not only is that example extremely contrived, it is also not an example of
> srana being "dedicated to", and I highly doubt any manager would say "A book
> is completed pertinent to ko'a in the obvious form" to yell at someone for
> putting a name in a book. More likely they'd just say "Why is {name}'s name
> in you book? I want it out, NOW!"