[lojban] Re: catni

[Arnt Richard Johansen <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Yanis Batura wrote:

> > lo ka/nu catni
>
> Hmm... "quality of being *someone* with authority" and "event of *someone* having authority" is somewhat different from the concept of "authority". Authority is a social power which can be "possessed", and which, applied to ppl, makes them behaving in an appropriate way.

The fact that several languages treats authority metaphorically as an 
object that can be possessed, transferred and given away, does not make it 
an objective fact.

I'm hard pressed to think of an English sentence using the word 
"authority" that cannot easily be translated into Lojban using "catni".

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
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