Re: [lojban] sisku (was: Re: bringing it about)

["Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>]

la and cusku di'e

> FWIW, I would prefer not to seek a solution at all, and to use
> "X troci lo (?) nu X know-the-whereabouts-of Y" instead.

That might work:

 mi zvajuntoi le do pinsi
 I'm looking for your pencil.

 mi troci le nu zvaju'o lo pinsi
 I'm looking for a pencil.
 (I'm trying that there be a pencil such that I know
  where it is.)

which with due context can even be shortened to:

 mi troci tu'a lo pinsi

> Sisku could be left
> as it is, to wither, in principle, from desuetude, and, in practice, to 
> become
> semantically ambiguous, through misuse.

It is too tempting to use it with its original meaning
of "x1 looks for x2", so I guess that's how it will remain
in practice.

co'o mi'e xorxes



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