cenba

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

1- le mi creka cu cenba fo le nu lumci py
My shirt changed in the wash (e.g. it shrunk).

2- ?le creka cu cenba fo le nu le mi se klama cu cenba
My shirt varies as my destination varies.

Do we really approve of this type of ambiguity? In the first case,
{le mi creka} refers to a particular object, which changes in some
property. In 2, what seems to change is what the referent of
{le mi creka} is. In 1, {cenba} describes a relationship between
an object and an event. In 2, unless I'm misunderstunding something,
it would be a relationship between the words, it says that
the words of x1 change referent in consonance with the change of
referent of the words of x2. Is that acceptable?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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