I like it. Anything to fill in perceived gaps appeals to me.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Daniel Brockman
<dbrockman@gmail.com> wrote:
I think we should have a generic operator for converting a sumti referring
to a selbri into a selbri. I propose calling it {me'ei}. It'd be part of ME.
For example,
i do ko'a me'ei lo melbi
You have a beautiful relation to ko'a.
i pe'i la xalbo na me'ei lo smuni be lo cmene be vo'a
I don't think xalbo lives up to his name.
This plugs a language hole that may be somewhat theoretical but in my opinion
is pretty fundamental. It also provides a way to define things like {me'oi}:
{me'oi foo} = {me'ei lo smuni be zo'oi foo}
And if you don't like {bu'a}, which is a bit awkward to quantify, depending on
your standard for awkwardness, you can just use {me'ei da}.
All in all, it's a powerful tool for talking about and manipulating predicates.
For example, one could define a brivla like this:
{kibro} = {me'ei lo smuni be zo kibro bei la jbovlaste}
Now, maybe that's not how you interpret it, but at least now you can
talk about it in a precise manner.
Thoughts?
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