Re: [lojban-beginners] Tanru Grouping.

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Friday, March 15, 2013 16:46:40 DEmi, en wrote:
> I have a quick question about tanru grouping. Quoting the wave lessons:
> "Tanru are grouped from left to right, so this tanru is understood: ((*vajni
> merko*) *skami*) *te vecnu*, a buyer of computers for important Americans."
> 
> Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that *'mi vajni merko skami te vecnu'
> *means something like 'I am an important-American type of computer which
> buys things that are sold'?*

Lo skami te vecnu could be a buyer of computers, a buyer that is a computer, 
or a buyer who uses computers. The computers could be for important Americans, 
they could be American, which is important, or they could be made by important 
Americans. Tanru are semantically ambiguous.

Pierre
-- 
.i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do
.ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga
.icu'u la ma'atman.

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