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Re: Questions
- To: lojban@cuvmb.bitnet
- Subject: Re: Questions
- From: Chris Bogart <cbogart@CSN.ORG>
- Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 09:10:03 -0600
- Reply-to: Chris Bogart <cbogart@CSN.ORG>
- Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
>> [4]- the box is the contents of one or more bottles;
>> [5]- the box is the material used for making one or more bottles.
>
>The x1 of {botpi tanxu} is a box. I suppose that the 4th example
>means that it's a box inside a bottle, a "bottled box", although
>{se botpi tanxe} might be more clear. I don't understand the 5th
>example either.
Silly example, but suppose there *were* a special sort of box which was
typically used as material for making bottles; e.g. maybe they're some kind
of glass 'boxes' created by the glass-making process, in a form especially
convenient for glass-blowers to work with when making bottles. What would
you call those boxes? "botpi tanxe" seems feasible, or better yet "te botpi
tanxe".
>> .i fe'omi'e dilyn. trsTON.
>You don't need to capitalize TON, because the o is the only vowel and
>so it already has the stress anyway.
Good point, but I'm glad he did it anyway. I probably would have (wrongly)
pronounced it as TRSton. if it had been spelled without capitals.
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