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Re: [lojban-beginners] On "by standard x"



On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:00:28PM -0500, MorphemeAddict wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:20 PM, v4hn <me@v4hn.de> wrote:
> > I really hope this does not depend on any particular gismu,
> > because all these places are phrased the very same.
> > Therefore, I would like to have one accepted interpretation of them.
> 
> The standard can be any kind of standard, which can be utterly trivial,
> like "by the standard of me". "Standard of judgment" is just one example
> that makes sense in the context of {fenki}.
> 

That interpretation is highly ambiguous. "by the standard of me" is polysemous
w.r.t. judgment and comparison. That's the reason why I would like to know
what it means to put a material object/individual into this place.


v4hn

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