[lojban-beginners] Re: tavla N2.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:16:38AM +0800, M C wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:40:51 +0100, Roman Gorbunov
> <rodmigor@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > It means "la tam. tavla la meris." is equal to "la meris. se
> > tavla la tam.", i.e. second sentence cannot be translated "Meris
> > listen Tom", because if Tom speaks to Meris it does not
> > necessarely means that Meris listen to Tom.
> 
> Quite right.

Indeed.  The second one should be translated as "Mary is talked to
by Tom".

-Robin

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