Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: "He was made much of at school."

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 19 November 2010 11:33:13 Luke Bergen wrote:
> see herein lies the confusion (for me anyway).  I could use a similar
> argument about lo barda gerku.  {barda} has an x3 place for the "norm"
> compared against which the object is big.  {gerku} has no place to denote
> size, so maybe it should be {lo gerku barda}?  I'm reductio ad absurdam-ing
> here so don't take this as a proposal that "the big dog" should be
> translated "lo gerku barda".  I'm just trying to get my finger on the
> precise way of deciding what the "principle" component of a tanru *should*
>  be.

"ti barda fi lo ka gerku" doesn't necessarily imply "ti gerku" (it may be a 
doghouse, or an animal which is being compared to dog sizes). "ti traji lo ka 
barda" does imply "ti barda" (unless x3 is negative, of course).

Pierre
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