On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Escape Landsome
<escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:
coi rodo
The semantic of & operator is that (x & y) means a y of which we add
the x-ness. That is, the tanru (x y) has (x & y) semantics.
Examples : a white house, a black bird, a great escape
The semantic of * operator is that it transforms a notion y into
another notion z, through the action of some word x that acts as an
arbitrary marker.
Your examples are for metaphorical or mnemonic extensions of the literal meanings. They aren't the result of a single operation.
stevo
For instance in English (White * House) is the place where the
President of USA works, whereas (white & house) is just one house that
happens to be of white color.
In a similar fashion (black * bird) is a blackbird, while (black &
bird) is a black bird, that is, a bird which is black.
This is not lojban, but perhaps should be : in a compound word x-y-z
where x is a color word, we don't know it is a (y-z) that is x, or a z
that is (a y that is x).
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