[lojban] Re: Duty, promice etc...

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

On 1/5/07, John E Clifford <clifford-j@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>  As for the English, the words "promise" and "duty" are polysemous,
> covering the making of the promise, what is promised and some
> abstraction (don't we have a generic abstraction operator? Yes, {su'u})
> which combines what is promised with the whole network of conditions
> which making a promise calls into being.  This last is probably best
> summed up in "the sate of being obligated to do whatever by virtue of a
> promise".

Could you give examples where the English "promise" means anything
other than what is promised, {lo se nupre}? Can it really be used for the
act of making a promise or for the state one is in after making a promise?
Could you say: "He was chewing gum during his promise" or "I can't do
that because I'm in a promise"?

Same for "duty". Except for it meaning "tax", when does it mean anything
other than {lo se bilga}?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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