Re: [lojban] Re: semantic primes

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

I worry about this: it seems to say "in the
actual frame of reference of someone who might be
looking at the mountain" (but, ex hypothesi, is
not), which would miss the point.  I think that
moving the {da'i} out to scope the whole sentence
works nicely: "the ball would be on the right of
the tree for someone looking at the mountain
(with all xorxes quite correct assumptions)." 
The other possibility would be to bury the {lo
catlu be lo cmana} behind {tu'a} and leave the
details to be worked out later.
Byt the way, is there a regular distinction
between "on Billy's right" and "to the right of
Billy"?

--- Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> On Monday 20 March 2006 08:46, John E Clifford
> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> le bolci cu pritu le tricu lo da'i catlu be le
> cmana
> 
> mu'omi'e pier.
> 
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