Re: [lojban-beginners] cusku/NU

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

oops.  I thought that's what {du'u} was.  I thought {se du'u} was "the sentence that expresses a bridi".  So I would think that {se du'u} is the actual sentence and {du'u} is the basic relationship that the {se du'u} is expressing.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org> wrote:

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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