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Re: [lojban] Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives
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- Subject: Re: [lojban] Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives
- From: "Jorge Llambias" <jjllambias@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:05:25 GMT
la pier cusku di'e
Think of {botpi} as "contain(er)". A container is still a container when it
is
not containing anything, just as I am still a programmer when I am not
programming.
Of course, but you are not programming when you are not programming
and a container is not containing when it is not containing.
So saying {ta ca ca'a botpi} when ta is not containing is wrong.
So I can say of the empty water bottle, {ta botpi lo djacu .ijenai
ta ca botpi lo djacu}.
Yes, assuming you mean an implied {ka'e} and not {ca'a}.
By the same logic, you can also say {mi patfu} when you don't
have any children, and you can say {ta se botpi} of many things
that are not bottled. I prefer not to make such confusing claims.
co'o mi'e xorxes
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