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[lojban] Re: [Archivist] muvdu vs. sezmuvgau
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:06:41PM -0500, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
Robin Lee Powell wrote:
I get the impression from the definition of muvdu (in
particular, the claim that its x1 is an object) that it can't be
used for "I move to the back of the room".
I'm not sure why not. Lojban definitions aren't always
politically correct, and a person can be an object %^)
Ah, see, in my English that's not really the case.
When I see "object" in the definitions, I tend to think dacti
.i ro remna cu dacti .i xu su'o gu'enai remna gi prenu cu zasti .i xu le
go'i cu dacti
but I just want to check: can muvdu be used for agentive
movement?
The gismu list gives muvgau and muvzu'e for agentive move.
Which is sort of my point: the presence of those compounds implies
that "mi muvdu lo vorme" for "I move to the door" is wrong, because
it's an agentive sentence but the presences of those compounds
implies that muvdu is not agentive.
{muvdu} isn't agentive. That doesn't mean that there isn't an agent involved,
it just means that there isn't an agent included in that bridi. so {mi
muvdu lo vorme} means that you end up at the door, while being agnostic
about whether you're moving under your own power, being carried by someone
else, falling in some unusual gravity well, or any other means of
transportation.
--
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/
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