[lojban] Re: {X1 selbri X2} = {X2 se selbri X1}?

[Yann Le Du <yann.ledu@noos.fr>]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Opi Lauma wrote:

>
>> {melbi tavla} and {melbi se tavla} are tanru, and as
>> such are ambiguous.
>> Now we can reason that {le se tavla} is an audience
>> so {le melbi se tavla}
>> is a beautiful audience.
>
>
> In the reference grammar the following is written:
>
> 9.10)    la tam. [cu] melbi tavla la meris.
>    Tom beautifully-talks to Mary.
>
> "beautifully" and "talks" are connected by "-", it
> means that "beauty" is property of "talk". So I would
> conclude that {le melbi tavla} is {beautiful speaker}
> in the sense that he is beautiful as speaker, and in
> the same way {le melbi se tavla} I would translate as
> {beautiful audience}, BUT as earlier I would say that
> beauty is a property of "being talked by", i.e. {X cu
> le melbi se tavla} means that X is beautiful in being
> talked, i.e. X is beautiful in doing nothing.

{X cu melbi se tavla}, without {le}

Ok, right, "X is beautiful in doing nothing", and is that a problem really
? "A stone is beautiful in doing nothing", and what ?

Or maybe you don't see any problem with that, and just wanted some
confirmation for your interpretation, in which case I concur.

co'o

--
Yann Le Du


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