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Re: xruti agentless
- To: Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@access.digex.net>
- Subject: Re: xruti agentless
- From: jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 09:10:55 -0700
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Aug 94 15:59:58 EDT." <9408141958.AA16071@julia.math.ucla.edu>
- Reply-to: jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU
- Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
Jorge Llambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU> writes:
> A plea to remove another place: the x1 of xruti.
Presently: xruti xru x1 (agent) returns x2 to origin/earlier state x3 from x4
To be: xruti xru x1 returns to origin/earlier state x2 from x3
> I think that the concept "x1 is back in state x2" is important enough, and
> {se'ixru} doesn't really mean this, while {xrugau} would be exactly the same
> that {xruti} is now.
I second the motion. Originally there were very few transitive
(agentive) gismu, and I was comfortable using lujvo to make
transitives.
mi nelci le nu la lojban. ba *xruti le nu loi gasnu valsi cu rirci
-- jimc