Re: [lojban] Re: le finpe

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net> wrote:
> On Friday 16 April 2004 00:27, sshiskom wrote:
> > I translated a definition of "fish" from Korean to Lojban.
> >
> > le finpe cu danlu gi'e ponse le kamjybo'u gi'e xabju le djacu gi'e
> > na'o ponse le fipfepri .e le fipybirka .e le fipypi'a
> >
> > Does this look good? How can I add it to jbovlaste?
> 
> This isn't a definition; it's a statement about some particular fish. If you 
> changed it to {ro finpe cu danlu li'o}, that makes it a universal statement, 
> which is closer to a definition.

I would use {lo finpe} here, understanding {lo} as the generic,
("a fish is an animal that...") distinct from {su'o lo finpe} which 
gives "at least one instance of fish". More on this here:
<http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=XS+gadri+proposal>

But in this case it doesn't matter because as you say the
definition in jbovlaste will look something like:

> x1 danlu x2 gi'e te kamjybo'u ...

mu'o mi'e xorxes




	
		
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