Re: [lojban] re'o vs ne'a

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:33 PM, djandus <jandew@gmail.com> wrote:
> doi xorxes
> What would that mean, exactly? That is:
>
> mi mo'i ne'a tu klama
> mi klama tu
> are those equivalent?

"klama tu" says that "tu" is my destination, but I may be going there
in a roundabout way so that that is not the direction in which I'm
going.

"mo'i ne'a tu" says that there is movement towards a place near "tu".

> The other FAhA3 make a lot of sense to me as
> directions (mostly because their definitions include one, like "into" or
> "passing through") but I wonder about some... do all FAhA3 have the
> direction of "towards [sumti]", with distintions between "passing through",
> "contacting", "edging up to", and "into"? And if so, then what do {ne'a} and
> {bu'u} mean as directions?

"mo'i bu'u ko'a" indicates there's movement towards the place where "ko'a" is.

I don't think "mo'i" is much use. We already have "fa'a" to indicate
direction, and movement is usually indicated by the selbri. It's very
rare that you need to add the idea of movement to a selbri that
doesn't already have it.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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