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[lojban] Re: x1 is of type x2



!. I was trying to construct a lujvo for "brand":

  "the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand"

and felt I needed such a gismu here, though I am considering using
{branda}.

2. "It isn't the sort of thing one should talk of in private."

Here one can say 

   "na bilga lo'edu'u tavla fa lo'e mibypre fi le'e du va'o lo sivni"

... but I would like to be able to capture the "sort of thing" of the
original. So I used {dzadanlu} as a lujvo for "x1 is of sort x2" --
I was fairly happy to base it on danlu; the dza was for lack of
anything better.

--And.

>>> lojban-out@lojban.org 10/14/02 12:03pm >>>
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:07:58 +0100
"And Rosta" <a.rosta@lycos.co.uk> wrote:

> What is the brivla for "x1 is of type/variety/sort/kind x2"?
> 
> --And.

First, show me that there is need for such a brivla. I'm not so sure
that there is.

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