On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:17 PM, la deivyd.
<david.a.imel@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm just starting to learn lojban -- starting with smart.fm gismu
flash cards and reading through the (online html version of) CLL. I
came to something in CLL that makes me think I'm fundamentally
misunderstanding how the grammar works, so I thought I'd de-lurk and
ask. (Is there a gismu for "x1 lurks on list x2"? Just kidding.)
No, but there's probably a lujvo for it. (And if there isn't, someone's bound to invent one now.)
Example 6.1 (http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/
chapter7.html#e6d1):
la .alis. sipna le ri kumfa
says the translation is "Alice sleeps in her room."
If I understand how the bridi work, I should first look at sipna
(because kumfa has been made into a sumti by adding { le ri } in front
of it, right?) as a "function": sipna(x1), where x1 is
{ la .alis. }. But the sentence, and the translation, seem to imply
that this is sipna(x1,x2), with x2 being { le ri kumfa }. When I look
up sipna in my gismu references, it only seems to have an x1. Is this
example a mistake? Or are my gismu lists outdated and there is an x2
for sipna? Or can you add sumti beyond the specified number of
arguments to a gismu?
Best to all,
--David. { la deivyd. }