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

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> But if this is what jimpe means then I see no difference between it and
> {djuno} except that djuno has a place for epistemology.

I suppose one may know that 56 is a multiple of 7 without
understanding it, but I didn't define the gismu.

> In that case, jimpe
> is far more useless than I previously realized.

Most of the propositional attitude gismu are more useless than they
look at first sight, yes.

> I don't think I can accept that.

You are not alone.

> 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).

Well, that's how I would say it in any case. To me it means that John
is languaged by English, not that he is specifically making use of it
right now.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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