[lojban] Re: Start of closed alpha draws closer ...

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> hmmm, xagvanbi from xamgu vanbi meaning "good environment".  How is "good
> environment" "opportunity"?

x1 is a propicious/favorable condition/context for x2
x1 is an opportunity for x2

> What about xagykamcu'i from xamgu ka cumki
> "good [property of] possible"?

I think an opportunity is a situation, a state of affairs, not a
property. An opportunity may be a situation that confers the property
of being possible, but the opportunity is not that property.

We can say "the trip was an opportunity (=a favorable context) to
spend more time with him" or "the trip provided the possibility to
spend more time with him", but not "the trip was the property of
spending time with him being possible".

So perhaps "xagnuncu'i", "x1 is a favorable situation of x2 being possible".

Or, if you want to use "xaurkamcu'i", then something like
"xaurkamcumsabji", but that sounds too long.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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