[lojban] Re: as the crow flies

["Cyril Slobin" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On 1/31/08, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> Or the bird could be a hoatzin, a chicken, or an ostrich. It doesn't
> matter much what kind of bird it is, as long as it can fly that long.
> So maybe

> {ki'otre li pamu ka'a da'i lo volcpi}?

I believe this is unnecessary. If we assume some cooperation with the
listener, then s/he probably realizes that cipni klamas the way that
the cipnis usually klama. And if s/he tries to find a weird meaning,
then no wording will be sufficient. To say first, "lo volcpi" claims
only that we speak about bird that can fly, but not that it has used
this ability to make this one voyage. To claim the later, vofli must
be connected with klama, not with cipni.

-- 
Cyril Slobin <slobin@ice.ru> `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said,
http://wagner.pp.ru/~slobin/ `it means just what I choose it to mean'


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