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Re: [lojban] Rant (baby related): dasni, taxfu, and all their friends.



That's not necessarily true.  It's possible to {broda zi'o}.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:
* Wednesday, 2011-11-30 at 09:36 -0800 - Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>:

> AFAICT, *NONE* of the clothing words have a place for "being worn
> by...".  See http://vlasisku.lojban.org/vlasisku/taxfu , wich seems
> to list all of them.
>
> {taxfu} has such a place, but it's ... umm, I'm not sure what that
> tense is called; intentional or something?, but it's a place for the
> sort of person that *could* wear the thing, not the person that
> actually *is* wearing it.
>
> This means the *only* way to talk about people wearing clothing is
> with {dasni}.
>
> WTF is the point of having place structures if I can't say {mi te
> pastu}?

Because then something would pastu only when it was being worn.

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