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[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban Reader



On 2/7/06, HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com> wrote:
> > .i ti cukta fi la .alex lo jbobau cilre
>
> Pointing at non-phisical existences is illegal; at least xorxe taught me
> that...

Hmm... If I did, I probably didn't put it that way. Pointing at something
non-physical would seem to be impossible rather than illegal. {ti} is
_supposed_ to refer to things you can point at, but sometimes
people don't use it that way.
 
Alright. 

As a separate issue, {cukta} seems to be more often than not used
for book the physical object rather than book the literary work.
 
But there he pointed to the reader itself which at most appears on Your
screen and isn't a phisical object.

Instead of {cukta}, I suggest the use of {se tcidu} to mean "text" and {te tcidu} to mean "surface/document/reading-material which is being read from." As for the use of {ti}, the text has a location in 3D space-- on the screen. Words on a paper are nothing more than an arrangement of ink molecules. Why should an arrangement of light in a physical screen not qualify as pointable?
-epkat