[lojban] Re: About jboselkei reviews

["Jorge Llambías" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 4/26/06, komfo,amonan <komfoamonan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From the definitions I gather that {ka'e} is restricted to innate ability
> while {kakne} refers to ability innate or learned. mu'o mi'e komfo,amonan

The problem with that definition is that {ka'e} applies to a selbri, and
it doesn't make much sense to say that a relationship has innate
capabilities.

What would {le mlatu ka'e kavbu le smacu} mean?
That the cat is innately capable of catching the mouse,
that the mouse is innately capable of being caught by the
cat, that they are both innately capable of being in the
{kavbu} relationship? And the trap/restraint x3, does it also
have to be innately capable? What if one of the arguments is
not something that can have innate capabilities, would {ka'e}
not be usable then?

{jinzi kakne} is better for "innate capability", and there it is
perfectly clear whose innate capability we are talking about.
It is not something that comes up very often anyway, so it
hardly needs to be done with a cmavo.

{ka'e} just cannot be about capabilities, be they innate or learned.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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