Re: [lojban] Re: mi kakne lo bajra

[John E Clifford <kali9putra@yahoo.com>]

Right.  The problem is that terms are not marked for animateness. or any other 
relevant category.  The Battle of Waterloo is an event, but you can't tell that 
from its Lojban name, which looks pretty much like "The town of Waterloo" or the 
name of an honest pub, "the bucket of loo water."  Some places have no 
restrictions, x2 (or is it x3?) of 'tavla' for instance, since we can talk about 
anything, and the same is probably true of what a picture is a picture of or 
what a piece of music is about and so,  Others have a fairly broad range, where 
it might be easier to say what "can't" go there.  And, as the discussion about 
'djica' shows, sometimes the very wrong thing turns up and is perfectly sensible 
-- if not always transparently.



----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>
To: lojban@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 3:38:56 PM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: mi kakne lo bajra

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> My only question is, will we also be marking x1 of {gerku} as being an
> animal?  lo gerku are animals, lo se skari are colors, you ve skina movies,
> citka food, pilno tools, djuno facts, and djica events.
> It is nonsensical to say {la tam cu gerku} if {tam} is a block of wood.

  Oh?  I think "la tam cu se kelci gerku" works just fine if tam is a
block of wood.

          --gejyspa

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