Re: [lojban] again about "out of"

[tijlan <jbotijlan@gmail.com>]

On 30 July 2012 09:37, Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now, either there is some cultural background common to everybody in
> Lojbanistan (and the notions of lojban grammar are a part of such a
> cultural background, so this background IS NON-EMPTY)...
>
> or that is not the case.
>
> In the former case, some metaphors should be possible to carry out.
>
> In the latter, no metaphor can be produced, but at least some new
> construction whose goal would be "to introduce instant and temporary
> metaphors that have meaning during the interaction", should be
> feasible.
>
> I would say ( // and * would be two new lojban words ) :
>
> "You really let the cat//info out-of the bag//concealment !"
>
> And you would reply
>
> "But the *cat was nearly dead..."

You don't have to mark "cat" and "bag" separately as a metaphor. You
can mark your whole sentence as a metaphor: add {pe'a} at the
beginning.


mu'o

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