[lojban] Re: Alice proofreading

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

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:22:32PM -0000, jjllambias2000 wrote:
> la noras cusku di'e
> > How about selkajnyta'e (se kajna tanxe).  I think of a cupboard
> > as primarily an enclosed set of shelves.
> 
> Ok, I'll use that. The problem was that the text talks of
> cupboards and book-shelves, I used {cukta kajna} for the latter,
> and I wanted to make more of a distinction between them. After
> all, a {se kajna tanxe} could just as well be a bookshelf.

Except not; bookshelves are not normally enclosed.

This is, AFAIK, the primary difference between the two.

-Robin

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