Re: [lojban] Attitudinal scales and the meaning of {cu'i}

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm quite willing to say that [na]cu'i/ru'e/sai/cai are context dependent,
> in the same way that "jai" or "bo" do different things in different
> contexts.

Not quite in the same way though. BO and JAI are purely structural,
they add no meaning of their own, they only add structure to a text.
On the other hand, selma'o CAI is purely semantic, not structural.

(I understand why you might say that BO has more than one function,
but why JAI? It always does the same thing: it changes the argument
structure of the selbri by removing the x1 from first position and
replacing it with a non-core argument.)

>  There is no reason why lojban can't have cmavo"idioms" that
> aren't necessarily necessarily parseable in meaning by their components.
> Lujvo, for example, already and explicitly are this.

It's nice to minimize such cases though.

> Some things are
> already in common use, for example za'u roi

Why is "more than once" not compositional?

If you mean "za'u re'u", "a time after the first one", it also seems
compositional to me.

>   This is probably heresy, though...

Nothing wrong with heresy, as long as you don't mind the heat. It can
get hot at those stakes. :)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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