[lojban] Re: vorme

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Would you regard it as a bug in the definition of {vorme} that it
makes no mention of any such distinction between the x2 and x3?

Chris Capel
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