[lojban] Re: sumtcita needed, badly.

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

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:41:44PM -0500, Rob Speer wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:01:18PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > Uhhh, "I say that you talked to me" is "mi cusku le du'u do mi
> > tavla', isn't it?  "mi cusku lesedu'u do mi tavla" is "I say the
> > sentece "do mi tavla"", isn't it?
> > 
> > The x2 of du'u is a literal sentence:
> > 
> >  du'u      NU       bridi abstract
> >                     abstractor: predication/bridi abstractor; x1 is
> >                     predication [bridi] expressed in sentence x2
> 
> You're thinking of abstractions as if they were brivla. The thing
> inside "du'u" or "sedu'u" isn't the x1 or x2, it's [bridi]. x1 and x2
> are two different abstractions that come from this bridi. The {se}
> only switches these places; it doesn't change what the du'u contains.

Thank you, and others.  This helps.

-Robin

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