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Re: [lojban-beginners] cusku/NU



Because I thought {se du'u} was the wrong thing...

Let me work through this:
du'u : x1 is a predicate expressed by sentence x2
se du'u : x1 is a sentence expressing predicate x2

lo se du'u broda : a sentence meaning {broda} (the phrase it stands in for, not the word itself)

amirite?

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org> wrote:

On Oct 1, 2010, at 11:58, Luke Bergen wrote:

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.

Yes, exactly so.

1. You said "you are fat" to me    do cusku lu do plana li'u mi
2. You said that I am fat          do cusku lo se du'u mi plana

#1 implies #2; #2 is less specific than #1, in that it does not give exact phrasing.

Why do you think you need to use some other abstraction than {du'u}?


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