[lojban] Re: bumru

["Chris Capel" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 8/12/06, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/11/06, Yanis Batura <ybatura@mail.ru> wrote:
> > The second means not fog itself, but the liquid, of which fog is composed.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better that {bumru} had another definition:
> >
> > "x1 is fog covering consisting of x2 and covering x3"
> >
> > Please don't kill me! ;)
> >
>
> "Liquid of which fog is composed" _is_ the fog itself. It cannot _not_
> be fog. {tu se bumru} is precisely what is meant.

I can't think of any example off the top of my head, but I remember
that some gismu have two different places that refer technically to
the same aspect of an object, but from different perspectives. So if
{bumru} did work like that, it wouldn't be unique among gismu.

Chris Capel
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