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Re: [lojban] Metaphoric usage
pycyn@aol.com writes:
>While maikl's offerings are often metaphoric -- as well as idiosyncratic --
>to the point of marginal intelligibity, the present case is about as close to
>literal as a tanru can get, namely is one of the recognized regular formats.
>In this case it is the collapse of the second place into the modifier
>position with reductions: from vlipa lenu pilno to pilno vlipa. I take it to
>mean pretty close to "use-full" in fact. This case does not even have the
>usual concealed intentional context.
That was _exactly_ the type of answer I was looking for, thank you. :)
-Robin
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