[lojban] Re: COI, UI (was Re: cfari)

[Jorge "Llambías" <jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar>]

--- Rob Speer <rspeer@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 08:42:57AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > You can always resort to full explicit predicates:
> > 
> >         ko'a le zvati cu sepli lo mitre be li pare
> >         Ko'a from here is separated by 12 meters.
> 
> But that's still not "12 meters", it's "something that is 12 meters
> long".

12 meters is 12 meters long, isn't it?

> If ko'a and I are a meter away from each other, on opposite sides of a
> 12-meter plank, that would still be true.

True. To be more precise you would need to fill the x3 of
mitre indicating that it is in the direction from ko'a to you.
But in general, context would seem to be enough. (Of course,
my "va lo mitre be li pare" suffers from identical ambiguity.
Here, "lo mitre be li pare" specifies the displacement, but
it doesn't absolutely guarantee that the x3 of mitre has to
be taken as expected. In fact, "va" is just a shortcut for
"fi'o te sepli be le manri".  

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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