RE: [lojban] Re: describing people

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>> Craig scripsit:
>>
>>
>>>How do you ask what someone looks like? I don't want the answer to be "a
>>>fish" but rather a description of the person's appearance.
>>
>>
>> I first thought of "ko'a simlu ma", but "ko'a selski fo ma" would be
>> more precise.
>>
>"ko'a simlu ma" would indeed invite the answer "lo finpe".

>ta'o k'ie doi kreig. ...

>be careful about "ko'a" - it's very tempting to use it to translate
>he/she/it, and this is _wrong_. "ko'a" should be one of the rarer
>pro-sumti, since you would only use it if you felt it useful to
>specifically assign a pro-sumti to a person or thing.  Given that you're
>writing a story KO'A may be appropriate, but I've seen too many cases
>where people use "ko'a" when they really want "ti" or "ri".

I'm several paragraphs in and have introduced all but one of the major
characters (I expect - I could decide to have more pop up) and have not
assigned a single ko'a-series cmavo yet. I've been using ri, ra, and an
occasional lerfu.

 -- mi'e .kreig.daniyl.

"do du le jamna pinji"
 -fracture

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