Re: [lojban] Re: describing people

[Robin Turner <robin@bilkent.edu.tr>]

John Cowan wrote:
> Craig scripsit:
>
>
> > How do you ask what someone looks like? I don't want the answer to be "a
> > fish" but rather a description of the person's appearance.
>
>
> I first thought of "ko'a simlu ma", but "ko'a selski fo ma" would be
> more precise.
"ko'a simlu ma" would indeed invite the answer "lo finpe".

ta'o k'ie doi kreig. ...

be careful about "ko'a" - it's very tempting to use it to translate 
he/she/it, and this is _wrong_. "ko'a" should be one of the rarer 
pro-sumti, since you would only use it if you felt it useful to 
specifically assign a pro-sumti to a person or thing.  Given that you're 
writing a story KO'A may be appropriate, but I've seen too many cases 
where people use "ko'a" when they really want "ti" or "ri".

robin.tr

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Robin Turner
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