(incidentally, it's "zbasu", not "zabsu")
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:37 AM, H. Felton
<lojban707@fagricipni.com> wrote:
I know that the CLL uses "living things are made of cells" as
an *example* of the use of "zi'o" --
"loi jimve cu se zabsu zi'o loi selci" --; nevertheless,
there must be a better way of expressing the "made of"
relationship. My thought-of sentence was "ordinary matter is
made of atoms" (On an incidental note, I decided that I needed
to use "slabu" for this use of "ordinary".); I ended up with
"lo slabu marji ku gunma lo ratni".
As far as the original "loi jimve cu se zabsu zi'o loi selci",
I can see no reason post-xorlo that "lo" wouldn't work just as
well as "loi"; ie, "lo jimve cu se zabsu zi'o lo selci". Then
with my choice for "is made of": "lo jimve cu gunma lo selci".
I'm not so sure about the choice of "lo" vs "loi" as I am that
there _should be_ a better _expression_ for "is made of" than
having to use "zabsu" with the maker place blocked up with
"zo'i"; the concept of "is made of" is just too common.
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