On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Stela Selckiku
<selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:17 PM, la deivyd. <
david.a.imel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm just starting to learn lojban -- starting with
smart.fm gismu
> flash cards and reading through the (online html version of) CLL.
> (Is there a gismu for "x1 lurks on list x2"? Just kidding.)
That'd make a good lujvo! Maybe... za'e "nalskuju'i" (na'e zei cusku
zei jundi, other-than speaking attending)!
Can I call it or what? I knew someone would make a lujvo.
> Or can you add sumti beyond the specified number of
> arguments to a gismu?
I have no idea about the sentence in Alice--
it's a very interesting
book BTW full of all sorts of experimental language, so it's a little
odd that it's so popular with beginners, but don't let that discourage
you because it is an important work and a good read, but do take the
things you find there with a small grain of salt!-- but YES it is
possible to add extra sumti to a bridi, beyond the defined places of
the brivla (whether it's a gismu, lujvo, fu'ivla, or whatever). Extra
sumti are treated as if they were marked with "do'e", that is they
have an unspecified relationship to the bridi. You could think of
every brivla therefore as having an infinite number of places, but
almost every brivla gives only a finite number of those places a fixed
meaning. (There are actually a few exceptions, for instance consider
"du", which has an infinite number of places all of which refer to
exactly the same referent.)
mi'e .telselkik. mu'o