Re: [lojban] Re: semantic primes

[John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net>]

All the hypothetical cases "if someone were
looking toward the mountain, then the ball would
be on the tree's right" and so on.  There is
apparently no such person and yet the location is
clear. 

--- Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/18/06, John E Clifford
> <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >  Maybe we can assume that the
> > frame of reference is always a person looking
> > some way and collapse the whole to the person
> (as
> > you seem to suggest) and assume he is looking
> the
> > way he in fact is,
> 
> Why do you need to assume that? Isn't a person
> always
> looking the way they in fact are?
> 
> > but that seems to me to miss a
> > lot of cases.  How are they to be expressed?
> 
> Which case does it miss?
> 
> mu'o mi'e xorxes
> 
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