Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Introduction

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

Oh, looking at this again I think see what you mean now. The school doesn't just "get ended" (such as, say, by the school day); it in a sense ends itself (rather, it ends something having to do with itself, namely the education process). That is, the real process that's going on is not passive (and being in the x2 place is about as close to passive as lojban gets by what I've seen), but active, which makes me think a sentence using se would be descriptive not of what is happening but of the result.

Is that more or less what you were thinking?

mu'omi'e latros.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh, yeah, definitely, I meant in regard to this context in particular.

mu'omi'e latros.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:35 PM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:

They are nuances that could be important in the proper context.

 

stevo

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:

That's a good point, but then what does that imply? Put another way, I see your premise, but I don't see your conclusion.

mu'omi'e latros.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:28 PM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:

I think you're missing the fact that it's not happening by itself, the way schools close at the end of the day or end of the school year, but that it's being done as a result of human decision, and that's it's permanent.

 

stevo