Re: [lojban] Re: loglan/lojban masses/sets

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

--- Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net> wrote:
> On Monday 10 May 2004 17:06, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
> > It is not {ro lo finpe cu tolcitmau ro lo mabru}, so if "lea"
> > was {ro lo} at some point it was not that here.
> >
> > I would go with {lo finpe cu tolcitnau lo mabru},
> > "fish is older than mammal".
> 
> That means "There is a fish that is older than a mammal", 
> which is true, but not what is meant.

That I would say as {su'o finpe cu tolcitmau su'o mabru}.
I make a distinction between {lo finpe} and {su'o finpe}.
I use {lo} as an empty gadri, all it does is convert a
selbri into a sumti without any additional semantics. 

> What is meant is that fish were created before mammals. So 
> I would say {lo'e se finpe cu tolcitmau lo'e se mabru}, where 
> {lo'e se <danlu>} refers to the taxon containing all <danlu> 
> and nothing else (in some cases there is no such thing, e.g. 
> jesymabru).

That's too technical for me, as I don't know much about
taxons. Your sentence is probably correct, but much more
precise than the original.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



	
		
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