Re: [lojban-beginners] Question about {roda}

[Remo Dentato <rdentato@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:13 PM, tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using an unbound "da", can one say "ro da noi prenu cu xebni mi" to
> mean the usual sense of "everyone hates me" (where "everyone" doesn't
> include "me")?

Why the {da noi prenu} rather then {da poi prenu}? I don't get why one
would want to use an "unbound {da}" and then use an incidental to
better specify it. Also, since {mi} is a {prenu} I don't see how this
would exclude "me" from "everyone".

Just as a reality check, is there anyone that reading {roda xebni mi}
would really think that {da} includes natural numbers, the star
Aldebaran and the chair I'm sitting on? Or even "myself"?

It seems to me that {roda broda} should (under common circumstances)
be the at least understood as {roda poi kakne lo nu broda cu broda}.
So in a context where chairs may hate, {da} includes chairs but
usually {da} will include some "people".

remod

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