In a message dated 9/12/2002 5:54:50 PM Central Daylight Time, araizen@newmail.net writes:
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> Note that whereas "brode broda" has an infinitude
> of possible meanings, "brode zei broda" has exactly one,
determinate,
> meaning.
Of course, but it isn't clear what the exactly one meaning is. Some
seem to think that it is any meaning decided on (probably the most
useful one). I think that that meaning should be the sum of the parts
in the sense that the meaning of the lujvo should be the exact meaning
of the disambiguated tanru that the lujvo is based one. Thus,
everything is a xancutci if and only if it is a cutci lo xance, and
xancutci is not allowed to have any meaning which is not provided by
xance and cutci. In practice, I haven't had much trouble with concepts
that cannot be expressed with the existing gismu.
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This assumes that we can always disambiguate a tanru and that any two right-thinking souls would do it the same way -- in context. Unlikely.
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Since there is only one possible interpretation for 'se broda', I
think that it's clear that 'selbroda' has the same meaning.
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If true, then, as noted elsewhere, {se broda} is not a tanru and so {selbroda} is not a lujvo.
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