Re: [lojban] non-ka properties

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

2011/6/20 Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>:
> On 20 June 2011 16:56, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/6/20 Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>:
>>> On 20 June 2011 16:30, Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Yes, "xukau" returns a strictly binary value. It's not the
>>>> exisitence of the "kau" per se that makes it binary. It's that the
>>>> answer to "xu" is only binary, so "xukau" can only be a binary value.
>>>
>>> Oh, fine. Then I wonder how do {ka broda} and {ka makau jei ce'u broda}
>>> compare to each other. Would you say they are close? The same?
>>>
>>> A nice thing is that {jei} has a x2.
>>
>>  I don't think you are saying what you think you are trying to say
>> (although what you said is grammatical).  "jei" is an abstractor, like
>> ka.  It takes a bridi and makes it into a selbri, who meaning is "..is
>> the truth value of [bridi]", just like ka is "...is the property of
>> [bridiness]-ness"
>
> I am pretty aware of what {jei} is.
> How do you understand {ka makau jei ce'u broda}?

I would have a hard time putting that into readable English. "The
property of that being the truth of its possessing a quality of
brodaness"

                --gejyspa

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