[lojban-beginners] Re: sevzi kosta

["Vid Sintef" <picos.picos@gmail.com>]

On 8/21/07, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> > How about {le ninmu cu cpacu le sevzi kosta}?
>
> {sevzi} has no direct connection with {le ninmu}, if that's what you
> are asking. Is it perhaps the speaker's coat that is involved? Or the
> listener's?

My aim is to enrich the implication that {le ninmu} takes/fetches the
coat because she has identified it as hers. A motivation. Without
explicitly using connectives like {mu'i}. I'm being optimistic about
the straightforwardness of the sequence from {le ninmu} to {le sevzi
kosta}, between which no other misleading sumti intervenes. Yes, the
coat still might be the speaker's or the listener's, but such
uncertainty in interpretation is always present over its unspecific
counterparts, isn't it? {le ninmu cu cpacu le kosta}... this {le
kosta} might belong to either {le ninmu} or the speaker or the
listener or anything, mightn't it? (And I think such usage of {sevzi}
also has a good point in economizing the occurrence of pro-sumti.)