Re: [lojban] Illogical English Sign

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "I can't forget what you've forgotten".  Is the artist saying {mi na kakne
>> lo nu tolmo'i da poi do tolmo'i ke'a} or {mi na kakne lo nu tolmo'i lo fatci
>> be fa lo nu do tolmo'i}?
>>
>  It HAS to be the first one, in English.. the second is "I can't
> forget THAT you've forgotten."

There are three cases:

(1) mi na kakne lo nu tolmo'i lo se tolmo'i be do
     "I can't forget what you've forgotten."

(2) mi na kakne lo nu tolmo'i lo du'u do tolmo'i makau
     "I can't forget what you've forgotten."

(3) mi na kakne lo nu tolmo'i lo du'u do tolmo'i
     "I can't forget that you've forgotten."

The English is ambiguous between (1) and (2), but Luke wrote (3) in
Lojban instead of (2), which goes with "that", not with "what".

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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