Re: [lojban] Named multiples

["Adam D. Lopresto" <adam@pubcrawler.org>]

On Thu, 12 May 2010, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:48 PM, purpleposeidon
> <purpleposeidon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Xorxes, do you have a grammar containing all of your changes? I know
> > that you've got a tense-simplification proposal on the Tiki.
>
> Most of them are listed here:
>
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=zasni+gerna+cenba+vreji

Interesting.  Some of those are definitely good, some strike me as going way
too far (of course), some somewhere in between.  But I'm curious about the
last one, allowing relative clauses to attach to selbri.  What exactly is the
"obvious meaning" that they have?  I mean, the common error is {ti gerku pe
mi} ("This is my dog."), but I don't see how you can consistently get normal
semantics, or even how to get the right meaning there (it's not the same as
{ti pe mi gerku}).
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