Re: [lojban] Re: Is srana symmetrical?

[Invent Yourself <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 06:10:23PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> >
> > --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > In otherwords, is the following lojban statment true:
> > >
> > >     le du'u da srana de cu roroi nibli le du'u de srana da
> >
> > The tag {sera'a} is used much more frequently than plain {ra'a}.
> > That at least would seem to suggest that {srana} is not
> > symmetrical.
>
> That is much more likely to be because the keyword for ra'a,
> "pertained to by", is incredibly confusing.
>
> I, for one, have no idea what it means, and have been avoiding ra'a
> for that reason.


mi da'i darlu ji'u tu'a zoi xy. pertain .xy .i ku'i la'e di'u nu darlu
ji'u tu'a le glico .iseni'ibo .ei cpedu fi la .bab.



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