Re: [lojban-beginners] Proposed change to smart.fm items

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

But if this is what jimpe means then I see no difference between it and {djuno} except that djuno has a place for epistemology.  In that case, jimpe is far more useless than I previously realized.

I don't think I can accept that.

How would you say "john understands english" in lojban, xorxes?  (And {la djan se bangu le glibau} says that he uses it, not that he understands it/knows it).

2010/5/7 Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> hmm, but if I said {la jdan jimpe tu'a le glico} would that imply that he
> actually understands things said in the english language?

No, I don't think "jimpe" has any connection with the language used to
express something. At least as defined, "jimpe" is about understanding
facts (presumably in a languege that the jimpe has command of) not
about understanding people or languages or sentences. Of course
everybody uses it more or less in the broader sense of English
"understand", not in the restricted sense of "understad that xxx is
true".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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