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Re: [lojban-beginners] precise tenru





On Friday, September 26, 2014 1:35:04 PM UTC-4, TR NS wrote:


On Friday, September 26, 2014 12:01:58 PM UTC-4, tsani wrote:
Tanru are simple, and less verbose constructs are typically less precise. Tanru are designed to be inexact in their meaning, and are designed to be highly dependent on context. If you don't like that, then don't use tanru; if you want to be precise, there're a multitude of alternatives.


It's not a matter of me not liking it. I just want to know if that is the intent, in light of the fact that much idiom is the consequent.

Actually, that reminds me. I think people get the wrong idea about my questions sometimes. Please don't misconstrue my questions for disgruntlement. I am simply trying to understand the "why" of things. That includes asking about possible alternate approaches --sometimes asking "why not" gives much more insight than just asking "why".


Just as a follow up to my own inquery,  Loglan 1, 3.11 confirms that the concept of tanru is completely idiomatic. JCB compares Loglan to Chinese in this respect.

Note I am being fairly narrow about my use of the word "idiom" --that the meaning can't be *deduced* as a simple bridi of the words.

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