Re: [lojban-beginners] {bilni}. How to use? It has been use only once!

[Jacob Errington <nictytan@gmail.com>]

.i la gleki di'e cusku

Strange but I can see that {bilni} has been used only once in the corpus.

There are more examples of {bilni} in lojban mriste but its x3 is never filled.

bilni = x1 is military/regimented/is strongly organized/prepared by system x2 for purpose x3.

It has a place structure different from {girzu} and I dont know how to use it.

Is bilni1 a soldier or an army?

I need either an example with all places filled or I'll just ignore this word.

I can see bilni in two ways.

1) bende with the x2 removed, plus the usual connotations of things being military. (That being said, I would like to see bende2 removed, since it's just another instance of group membership which can be achieved by other means.)
2) the definition is a bit off. Read it instead like this: "bilni = x1 is a military/regimented/strongly organized x2 for purpose x3". This way, bilni is what I call a "connotation selbri", like the cultural gismu. This allows you to use it as a compositional adjective, like mutce et al. e.g. bende bilni -> bilni lo ka ce'u bende -> "army". You can effectively "militarize" any selbri by sticking "bilni" onto the end thus.

Regardless of these two interpretations, bilni3 is just a property of the x1 that expresses the raison-d'etre of the x1. It's pretty redundant to mukti, pe'i.

.i tu poi sonci certu so'u mei cu bilni lo ka bende kei lo ka ce'u nurgau lo noltruti'u lo palci mafcre
"These few expert soldiers are a military group destined to rescue the princess from the evil witch."

.i mi'e la tsani mu'o

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