Re: [lojban] x3 of dasni

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

la djan cusku di'e

> Perhaps dasni3 ought to be a set; the gismu list calls it a "type", and 
> types
> are sets of tokens (or values).  So:
>
> 	ko'a dasni le boxfo lo'i kosta
>
> meaning that he1 wears the (specific) blanket as if it belonged to the
> set of coats.

That does make sense. Either "x1 wears x2 as if it were an instance
of type x3", in which case I would use {lo'e} for the type, or
"x1 wears x2 as if it were a member of set x3". The current wording
suggests the former, but the latter would have the same meaning.

> > Yes, I go with the event too. I thought that the place where an
> > event took place had to contain all the participants of the event.
>
> I agree, although that makes place hard to set for some
> predicates, like "zmadu".  If I say that the Andromeda Galaxy is
> more massive than the Milky Way Galaxy, where does the event occur?

I would say any place that contains both galaxies.

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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