Re: [lojban] tunlo

["G. Dyke" <gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch>]

So how do I say what I swallowed? On at least two occasions, recent usage
has overridden the official definition anyway.

----- Original Message -----
From: <pycyn@aol.com>
To: <lojban@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] tunlo


> In a message dated 9/10/2002 11:31:21 AM Central Daylight Time,
> gordon.dyke@bluewin.ch writes:
>
>
> > mu'i ma noda ka'e sumti zo tunlo li re i pe'i le ba nenri be le betfu cu
> > go'i .ei i pe'ipei
> >
>
> This was one of a set of "basic actions," in the philosophical "muscle
> twitch" sense, that were separated out to allow one predicate to cover a
wide
> range of "non-basic actions" (twitches with purposes and affecting things
> other than the body itself) by compounding.  Whether the philosophy behind
> this was sound, we are stuck with several of these and they seem to work
OK.
> On the other hand, we left several potential members of the set unreduced
and
> somehow manage to deal with all the cases anyhow.  (see the "action" set
in
> the 1-place predicates in the partially organized lists).
> We can, after all, swallow without swallowing anything, even spit -- and
> {zi'o} is more suspect than compounds.
>


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