Re: [lojban-beginners] cusku/NU

[Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org>]

On Oct 1, 2010, at 11:24, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote:

> Is there a way to say something like "So you say that I am fat?"
>
> The problem is that cusku takes a (sedu'u/text/lu'e concept), and  
> not a more general abstraction.

"se du'u" is what you want, not "a more general abstraction".

Without considering the English "So ...?" construct, this is:

  do   cusku  lo se du'u  mi    plana
  You  say    that        I  am fat

"lo se du'u" is, in general, what you use where you could use a  
quotation but are instead expressing the concept in your own words.  
"You" said something whose meaning was "I am fat", but you're not  
saying what words were said.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>

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