Re: [lojban] tanru clarification, please.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:40:32PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 
> 
> > So, obviously la djan. must be an x1 of nanla for the statement to be
> > true.
> > 
> > My question is: does he also need to be an x1 of gleki for the statement
> > to be true, or is it just assumed by convention that sumti filling the
> > x1 of the tertau is also filling the x1 of the seltau?
> 
> 
> The official answer is that there is no official answer: tanru,
> Humptywise, mean what the speaker wants them to mean.  This
> interpretation (called "parallel" in the Book) is a pretty likely
> one, but it is not inconceivable that "gleki nanla" means
> not "boy who is happy" but "boy whose age is happy".

That last sentence was deliberately unintelligable, right?

So

la djan. gleki be fa la djein. be'o nanla

is legal.  I have very little idea what that would mean, though.  John
is a boy who is happy like Jane?

-Robin

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