RE: [lojban] tanru

["Ben Goertzel" <ben@goertzel.org>]

 

Hi,

 

The loquacious beginner will try his unsteady hand at answering a question again ;-)

 

Lojban dictionary says:

 

"

school 4. ckule (kul cu'e): x1 is |/institute/academy at x2 teaching subject(s) x3 to audience/community x4 operated by x5 [also college, university] 
"

 

So according to my limited knowledge, a nice, clear phrasing would be

 

ti [cu] ckule fi le cmalu nanla

 

But your phrasing in terms of a tanru is also correct, though more ambiguous as the tanru "cmalu nanla ckule" has a lot of possible interpretations

 

On the other hand, to say

 

This-thing is-small in-dimension-"boy" as-compared-with-standard
"school"

 

you could say

 

ti cmalu le nanla le ckule

 

Here, the English-article-like cmavo "le" marks nanla and ckule as sumti rather than components of a tanru

 

-- Ben G

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Aleksej R. Serdyukov [mailto:deletesoftware@yandex.ru]
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 10:57 AM
To: lojban@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [lojban] tanru

coi ro do

(I am ill now, so excuse me if I write some gibberish or act stupid)

"ti     [cu]    cmalu   nanla   ckule   [vau]
This            is-a small-     boys    school.
This is a school for small boys."

How do I know that this is not:
This-thing is-small in-dimension-"boy" as-compared-with-standard
"school"
, e.g., "Boy of this thing is small by standard "school""
?


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