[lojban-beginners] Re: Standards and states

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

On 8/14/07, ANDREW PIEKARSKI <totus@rogers.com> wrote:
> {.i pycy cusku lu .ieru'e .oiru'e ku'i by puza klama ti gi'e cusku lu lo melbi ba'e cmalu u'i bo guzmrkukurbita bo purdi cu se ponse do doi paf li'u li'u
>
> .i lu do'i jetnu jufra .i sa'e do'i jetnu lo za'i karbi fi le so'i guzme purdi pe by li'u se cusku ko'e}
>
> The last sentence was originally: 'Especially compared to his his fields of pumpkins.
>
> The X2 in {jetnu} should be a standard/epistemology/metaphysics.  Can the {lo za'i} abstraction be used here as the standard of comparison?

I'm not very clear on what is meant to go in the x2 of jetnu, but perhaps
{.i sa'e cmalu fi le so'i guzme purdi pe by} would have done. (That also
solves the problem that {do'i} is being used to refer to an utterance
inside a quotation, which is not its normal use.)

It's also not very clear to me why a comparison would be a state. I would have
said it was an achievement, eventually a process, perhaps it could even be an
activity, but a state is the last event-type I would classify it as.

mu'o mi'e xorxes