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

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 02:56:12PM -0500, Martin Bays 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.

And botpi must contain something, as must kabri.  I'm not seeing the
problem.

-Robin

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