Re: [lojban] Connective question

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> So if I want to say "my wife made lemon and lime bars" (where I mean to say
> that she made lemon bars and lime bars) is it possible to say this in lojban
> without repeating the "bar" part?

You could use "fa'u":

  lo speni be mi cu zbasu lo pelnimre fa'u ri'ornimre nanba

(I don't know what a lemmon bar is, I'm assuming some kind of cake.)

> As a more practical example.... can the following be shortened so that I
> don't have to repeat all the common words?
>
> mi citka lo crino je jukpa je cmalu je cinri je cukla je titla cidja .e lo
> pelxu je jukpa je cmalu je cinri je cukla je titla cidja

Is the interesting circular sweet little green cook the maker or the
ingredient of the food that you like? :)

> I imagine there must be a way of doing this with variable assignment sorts
> of constructs but I was hoping that there might be a way with pure
> connectives.

There is no rigorous transformation of pure logical connectives (such
as ".e") into tanru connectives. The internals of tanru are not really
part of pure predicate logic.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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