Re: [lojban] Predicate logic and childhood.

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

la robyspir cusku di'e

> Aha, that does help clear things up.
> {do bazi nicygau ledo klama .ijo nu'e mi curmi lenu do klama le panka}

{nu'e} is a vocative, (although like every vocative but {doi} it
should have been a UI) so it has to be {nu'edo'u}.

> I think that this makes {nu'e} apply to {.ijo} so that the parent promises 
> to
> make {.ijo} true.

Yes, I agree that should be the interpretation. {i nu'e go ... gi ...}
would make it perfectly clear though, and there {do'u} is ellidable.

> > Even with {nu'e}, there is
> > no hint as to which of the two possibilities the parent has a
> > preference for.
>
> This can be resolved with an attitudinal as well.
> {e'o do bazi nicygau ledo klama .ijo nu'e mi curmi lenu do klama le panka}

Yes, as a promise it works much better than as a statement.

> I still don't exactly like {do bazi}. Is there a way to modify {ko} to make 
> it
> only apply to the bridi it's in? {koku} or something of the sort?

You could say:

{ko nicygau ledo kumfa i go'i ijo nu'edo'u mi curmi lenu do klama
le panka}

co'o mi'e xorxes


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