Re: [lojban] Re: semantic primes

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 3/17/06, John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Presumably, {pritu} serves both to locate an
> object (x1) in relation to a sided object which
> also has a directional orientation possible (x2)
> and then tries to coordinate that with an
> external position.

If the reference point serves both as positional reference
and as orientation reference (as is often the case)
it can be repeated in x2 and x3, no problem:

  le bersa cu zutse bu'u lo pritu be le patfu (bei ri)
  The son sits at the right of the father (from the father's viewpoint).

Other schemes, that try to make x2 both the positional and the
orientation reference, and x3 something else that plays with x2
to get it to be an orientation reference, are so full of complications
that I don't think it's worth even bothering with them.

I hope people will keep saying things like:

 le blanu bolci cu pritu le xunre bolci mi
 "The blue ball is to the right of the red ball from my point to view."

and just ignore the x2 facing x3 complications.

mu'o mi'e xorxes