Re: [lojban] Far away

[Luke Bergen <lukeabergen@gmail.com>]

Sorry, I do things best with examples.

What are the "two meanings" in terms of example sentences and their english translations (or pseudo-english translations involving phrases like "relative to the main selbri" etc...)

I originally thought that {vi} and friends were just like {ca} such that {mi tcidu vi lo tricu} would be understood as "I read [short-distance-from] a tree" and if I had used {vu} instead it would have been "I read [long-distance-from] a tree".  A while back though, I was corrected by someone or other that I want {bu'u} and friends for that sort of thing and that my original sentence actually means something else (what it means I don't remember any more).  .ija'ebo I don't use VI/ZI/etc.. any more as tags.  How SHOULD I be using them (given either school of thought that selkik was talking about)

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Stela Selckiku <selckiku@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Michael Turniansky
<mturniansky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   I will go further.  Unless and until a new CLL is written, I will continue
> to use va/vi/vu for origin, and termsets for distance. So,
> nanny-nanny-boo-bo!
>              --gejyspa, believer in the wirtten "word from on high"

Avoiding the area until it's resolved is fine, but using two different
definitions isn't! :(  I've been using this for marking origins: {PU
ZI ca (origin)} and {FAhA VA bu'u (origin)}.  If I understand
correctly-- someone tell me if I'm wrong-- that will properly mark an
origin under *either* meaning of ZI/VA, won't it?  It only comes up a
few times a day, so I don't feel like an extra {ca} or {bu'u} is too
much of a price to pay to avoid making this area of the grammar a
newbie-confusing warzone.

mu'omi'e la stela selckiku

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