Re: [lojban] {fa'a} and expressing "towards" in Lojban.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:47:18AM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Escape Landsome
> <escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The event of going has an intrinsic (but most often unused)
> > face. This face is the face of an imaginary person who would act
> > the aforementioned going.
> 
> Yes, although it's not necessarily the face of the person. If
> someone walks backwards from A to B, the direction of going is
> still towards B, even though the person is facing towards A. The
> intrinsic orientation of the going is from origin to destination.
> Many events in which something moves have an intrinsic
> orientation, which is the direction of movement. Other events with
> obvious intrinsic orientation but not about movement are looking
> and talking.
> 
> Using "fa'a" with "klama" is somewhat redundant because "klama"
> already has a slot for the destination (although sometimes the
> direction of going can be different from the destination at some
> points of the going, when the going is looked at in enough detail
> so it does not happen in a straight line). But with "cadzu" or
> "bajra" it makes perfect sense: "mi bajra fa'a do" -> "lo nu mi
> bajra cu se farna do".

I agree, and to clarify, {mi bajra fa'a lo snanu} is perfectly valid
if you're facing north; it doesn't say anything about the facing *of
the speaker*, which is how people have been using it, or about the
facing of any particular object in the bridi.

I also think {mi bajra fa'a mo'i lo snanu} makes a lot more sense
for "I run south", by the way.

It also seems to me that {fa'a X} ard {fa'a moi Y} could maybe be
different, but the event would need to somehow have a clear and
natural facing that the motion could then be in a different
direction from.

The original context was using {mi dundu ti fa'a do} to mean "I give
ti towards/to you", which is definitely wrong; the fa'a has nothing
to do with the ti, and even if it did, I can certainly place
something on a table away from you and say {mi dunda ti do}, since
dunda is about possession in the abstract and not about handing you
something, IMO.

So, how *do* we walk about the facing of objects in a bridi?

-Robin

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