[lojban] on kau : some ideas

["spermwhale.warrior" <guerrier.cachalot@gmail.com>]

hello everyone
I have some ideas to propose about the meaning of kau and its role.
And if "kau" was a mean to split a regular logical unit in two on the
plane purely semantic ?
In french, to say "mi viska lo nu do krixa"
we say "je t'entend crier".
but to say that I hear any action or event you have been the cause,
we can change the infinitive for another one.
It implies in term of cognitive structure that I hear you, well
indeed, but that what you have been involved in is something distinct
from you, that in fact I do not hear you crying, but you involved in
the process/fact/whatsoever of crying.Furthermore, the two of these
elements is a 2-uple.
Whereas with a relative proposition, I would not make this
distinction.
So "mi viska lo nu do kau krixa" is the exact equivalent of the french
statement.
But the distinction made by kau is purely metalinguistic, it has not
to broke the logical structure of lojban. And it permits to imagine
weird set containing anything inside metalinguistic brackets.

[to the moderators: please me send the message back if my english
isn't understandable]

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