Re: [lojban] Re: catni

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

On 8/11/06, Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
> The fact that several languages treats authority metaphorically as an
> object that can be possessed, transferred and given away, does not make it
> an objective fact.

In a sense, Lojban does this too, except the word for "possessing"
in this case is not {ponse} but {ckaji}:

   lo cevni cu ckaji lo ka catni lo ro se finti be cy
   "God possesses authority over all that He created."

   lo flalu cu dunda lo ka catni kei lo rirni
   "The law confers authority upon the parents."

mu'o mi'e xorxes