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

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

On 1/5/07, Cyril Slobin <slobin@ice.ru> wrote:
> coi xorxes
>
> > But isn't the network of obligations the thing promised? Isn't it
> > {lo se nupre}?
>
> No. Consider "mi nupra le nu mi broda". {lo se nupra} is {le nu mi
> broda}, but the network of oblicgations is {mi bilga le nu mi broda}.
> There are different entities.

How is {mi bilga le nu mi broda} a network of obligations?
The lojban is a bridi and the English is a noun phrase, so they
serve different functions.

A network of obligations might be {lo gunma be lo se bilga}.

(I'd use {ciste} for "network" but its place structure gives me
the creeps.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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