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Re: [lojban-beginners] how to use {fancu}?


On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:42 AM, la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
By looking at {lacri} I can see that it both means "to rely/to depend on"  and "to count on/trust".

Isn't the first pair is what is fancu (2) and the second one is something like {krici/kanpe}?

lo se vecnu cu lacri lo ni se se sabji jo'u lo ni sy se cpedu vau lo ka se jdima

  No.  They all the mean the same thing (or shades thereof):
"I know I can rely on gleki to ask questions about the gimste"
"I know I can depend on gleki  to ask questions about the gimste"
"I know I can count on gleki to ask questions about the gimste"
"I know I can trust gleki to ask questions about the gimste"

 
  Other shades of the meaning of the English word "depend" (or "rely on") could indeed be fancu in the realm of mathematics (the value of x depends on y), but less formulaic versions of dependency might be expressed by panra  (the price of bread depends on the price of wheat) or nitcu (man depends on water to live)

       --gejyspa

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