[lojban] Re: selbri fa place and gadri question

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>  I knew {lo} was flexible but I didn't know it was that flexible.

All "lo" does is convert a selbri into a sumti, selecting the x1 slot
of the selbri so that the referent(s) of the resulting sumti will be
things that fit that x1 slot. Any further specification,
determination, restriction, qualification, quantification, partition,
distribution, etc. of the referents, when and if needed, is better
done by means other than a choice of gadri. Unfortunately, the
existence of other cmavo in selma'o LE with additional information
created the notion that "lo" also had to convey some additional
information instead of remaining a neutral syntactic conversion, like
for instance "fi'o". Nobody worries about what meaning "fi'o" has
other han converting a selbri into a tag, but with "lo" it seems that
conversion of a selbri into a sumti was not enough.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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