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

[Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org>]

On May 7, 2010, at 14:56, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> > I really don't like that translation.  "used by" means {pilno} to  
> > me which is different from comprehending a thing.  If {jimpe}  
> > doesn't mean what the english "understand" means, then what does?
>
> "jimpe" does mean "understand that ...", it just doesn't cover all  
> the meanings of "understand", at least if we take the gi'uste  
> definition seriously.

Particularly, to understand an utterance is much better covered by  
{tersmu} (which I just recently wrote up a jbovlaste definition for).

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>




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