[lojban-beginners] Re: POM: Hold! Stop!

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 2/3/07, Cortesi <dcortesi@mindspring.com> wrote:
>  What about {lo bradi cu rinsa .ei} "the enemy calls"?

To me, that means "the enemy ought to greet us" (Or a bit
more precisely: "it ought to be the case that the enemy greets us").

> {lo jamna} also has x1: actor, same issue as {lo damba}.
>
> Is there an abstractor that pulls the "verb" out?
>        {pu'u jamna} == process of (x1 wars on x2) == "war"?
>        {si'o damba} == concept of (x1 fights x2) == "combat"?
>        {zu'o damba} == activity of (x1 fights x2) == "fighting"?

{pu'u}, {zu'o}, {za'i} and {cu'i} are all cases of {nu}. I tend to avoid them
and just use {nu}, so I would say {lo nu jamna}, {lo nu damba}.

mu'o mi'o xorxes