Re: [lojban] Re: lujvo

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la pier cusku di'e

> If you don't mark it as metaphor, you should say "le morsi xirma" - "lo" 
> means
> that it really is a horse.

But it really is a horse as much as it really is a beating.
What's the point of hiding the horse part if I can't hide the
beating part.

> We say "kick the bucket", not "kick a bucket",
> because there is no real bucket and it's an idiom.

I doubt very much that is the reason for "the". If the
origin of that expression is known, it may explain why
it is a definite bucket and not any bucket that one kicks.
Is the origin known?

> Why we don't say "beat the
> dead horse" I don't know - but let's reserve "lo" in Lojban for things that
> really are brodo.

But le is normally used for things that really are brodo too.
That is not the important distinction between le and lo, although
unfortunately it is a point that is extremely overemphasized in
the learning materials.

co'o mi'e xorxes



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