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

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

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 04:08:07PM -0500, Michael Turniansky wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Arnt Richard Johansen
> <arj@nvg.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:36:47AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > So I checked the place structure of dasni, and, hmm.
> >
> > # x1 wears/is robed/garbed in x2 as a garment of type x3.
> >
> > Would this mean that {mi dasni lo cutci lo mapku} means “I'm
> > wearing a shoe on my head”? Maybe not.
> >
>   Yes, it would.

Agreed.

-Robin

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