Re: [lojban-beginners] APE (Audience Participation Exercise): Lojbanic words of wisdom

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Friday, December 28, 2012 03:22:08 Jacob Errington wrote:
> That's correct, but in your original sentence, {lo ponse be lo mruli po'o}
> means "one who has something that is only a hammer" rather than "one who
> has only a hammer", which is reflected in the Lojban be the presence, or
> absence in this case, of {ku}. The difference arises from the fact that
> po'o is attaching to the selbri of the description sumti instead of the
> actual sumti itself.
> 
> In other words, {.i lo nanmu po'o cu kakne} and {.i lo nanmu ku po'o kakne}
> have (very) different meanings. In the former, "Things that are only men
> are able", whereas in the latter "Only the men are able." In the former,
> it's the selbri {nanmu} that is the only relevant selbri, whereas in the
> latter, it's the sumti {lo nanmu} that is the only relevant sumti.

je'e .i mi drastika
Got it. I have corrected.

Pierre
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