Re: [lojban] Gerunds, infinitives and other technicalities

[Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com>]

The point is no concept is ontologically pure (and this should be a
problem, even in Lojban).   Assume we are talking of "reading a book",
for instance.   Reading a book would be :
1°) the process of collect the information of adjacent letters and
words in lines of the pages of the book,
2°) the same process, but with the correlative cognitive process of
assigning a meaning (i.e. mental images) to what is pronounced
3°) the overall and more global process of entering deeply in the
author thought, in his world, and capture subtleties
4°) the same process acted on a whole life, so as to change one's
philosophy (as when you say "I am a Gospel reader")

There IS some connection between all four meanings, in the sense that
4°) needs 3°) which is necessary for 2°) to be carried, which in turn
is necessary for 1°)
Or, you could say, 1°) is a substratum of 2°), which is one of 3°),
which is one of 4°), and there is pragmatic elaboration from 1°) to
4°)

I guess that a PERFECT lojbanist would create four sumti for each meaning...

But the real problem is that these meanings lie in a CONTINUUM.   So,
in fact, one would ideally need an infinite number of sumti, if one
would render each meaning subtlety...

Here, I have a similar problem : what I speak about is a quest about
the meaning of life or the like (you got it), but it is ALSO a
specific question, the question that carries within itself this quest.
This notion is a lojbanic monster, because it should be two broda at
the same time, if we were to use existing broda

Thus, I guess the best thing to do is to create a neologism to
encapsulate the very special meaning of this (somewhat ?) "new"
notion...

Or, perhaps, you have a better idea ?   I'm ready for all suggestions

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