[lojban] Re: Is srana symmetrical?

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

--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 06:10:23PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > The tag {sera'a} is used much more frequently than plain {ra'a}.
> > That at least would seem to suggest that {srana} is not
> > symmetrical.
> 
> That is much more likely to be because the keyword for ra'a,
> "pertained to by", is incredibly confusing.
> 
> I, for one, have no idea what it means, and have been avoiding ra'a
> for that reason.

I think the idea of {srana} is that it means "x1 is about x2". So for 
example, if "this book is about birds" is true, that doesn't mean that
"birds are about this book" will be true, birds are not really
about books, so in this case birds pertain to the book and the book 
is "pertained to by" birds, but not the other way around.

    mi sanga sera'a le vi cukta
    I sing about this book.
    My singing is about this book.

    mi sanga ra'a le vi cukta
    I sing "pertained to by" this book.
    This book is about my singing. 

mu'o mi'e xorxes



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