Re: [lojban] Gerunds, infinitives and other technicalities

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

Well, a whole book is a problem, but you don't need that.  Your word need be not 
much longer than three syllables.  Your explanation may be a book.  But 
propaganda would work better than a book (see Laozi again).



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From: Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, July 29, 2011 11:32:31 AM
Subject: Re: [lojban] Gerunds, infinitives and other technicalities

If a tanru construction is the whole thing, and the glue, an
unspecified semantic or pragmatic link, then, wouldn't the tanru of
(quest AND question AND questioning) suffice to get the term ?

If I was to explain by a periphrase the way quest questions and
questioning are related and tied together in "the Question", I may
verily capture the meaning of it and create a big lojbanic word that
express the meaning of it, but the trouble, you see, is that this very
big word should be the length of the whole book...

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