Re: [lojban] Named multiples

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Adam D. Lopresto <adam@pubcrawler.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2010, Jorge Llambías wrote:
>>
>> 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?

Basically:

  <selbri> <relative-clause> = me lo <selbri> <relative-clause>

The only difference is that the left hand side would have well defined
sumti places beyond x1, and the right hand side doesn't.

> 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}).

Right, it's "ti me lo gerku pe mi".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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