Re: [lojban] What's the deal with me'ispe and bunspe?

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Monday, March 05, 2012 20:34:01 Jonathan Jones wrote:
> One, {me'ispe} is already {poorly} defined, so it makes sense to me at
> least to rewrite the definition rather than create a new word that actually
> means what the current definition is intended to mean, and two, {me'ispe}
> is similar to {fetspe}. In the same way that the rafsi of te irks us (as
> opposed to the rafsi of se, ve, and xe), I consider {speme'i} to be
> irksome.

The rule about lujvo consisting of kinship terms is that, if kinship terms are 
stuck together in a lujvo, the meaning of the lujvo is the relation 
composition (like function composition) of the meanings of the components. So 
"spebunspe" means "is the spouse of the brother of the spouse of". "fetsi" is 
not a kinship term, so the rule does not apply to "fetspe".

Pierre
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