[lojban] Re: vorme

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> In alice, there's this use of vorme:
>
> i abu cidni sanli gi'e catlu le se vorme noi traji le ka melbi kei lei
> purdi poi su'oroi se viska
>
> Now, I'm wondering here whether {te vorme} wouldn't be better. I know
> the official gismu definition doesn't specify that x2 is *this* side,
> and x3 *that* side, but it seems like that's the way it should be, and
> that the sentence would be clearer with {te vorme}. Is that the way
> the x2 and x3 are usually used?

The usual order in gismu with "to" and "from" places is "to x2, from x3",
so I would take {le se vorme} as the place the door leads to, if order
is to be significant. To specify "this" or "that" we can add "vi" or "vu"
(not "va" in this case since there is nobody there being spoken to).

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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