[lojban] Re: The x1 of fenki

[John E Clifford <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

This makes perfect sense to me, but language use
is agin you.  And, of course, noncrazy people can
and do do crazy things (i.e,  I suppose, things
that we would normally take to be the actions of
crazy people).  I suppose it is easier to get
crazy people out of crazy acts than conversely. 
Note too that {ta'u ko'e fenki} certain cases
ko'e in a less than sane role.

--- Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:18:15AM -0700, John
> E Clifford wrote:
> > 
> > --- Robin Lee Powell
> <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > > All of the major words used in the
> definition of fenki (crazy,
> > > insane, mad, frantic, frenzy) apply
> primarily to *people*, at
> > > least in the dictionaries I'm looking at.
> > > 
> > > Why, then, is the x1 of fenki an event?
> >
> > Either politeness or an entrenched notion of
> psychology: people
> > aren't crazy, only their actions are.  
> 
> That would be fine if there was a place for the
> person committing
> the action, but there isn't.  The definition
> quite clearly states
> that it is the x1 event itself that is crazy.
> 
> This is really bizarre to me, because to me
> only *people* are crazy.
> 
> There are actions that only a crazy person
> would take, but it's the
> preson that's crazy, not the actions.
> 
> -Robin
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