On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:10:14PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:28:41PM +0200, v4hn wrote:
> > The idea is that you can still disambiguate any sentence with
> > {carna}, if the set of sumtis referring to possible angular
> > distances and the set of sumtis referring to possible points in
> > space you can face are always disjunct.
> >
> > Is this concept already used somewhere in lojban?
>
> I believe there are other sumti that work something like that, but
> I'm not remembering any examples off the top of my head.
>
> Briefly poking at the gismu list, ragve, danfu, zanru. Others, I'm
> sure.
None of these is really polymorphic as far as I can see.
The only scene I can think of, that might cause an overlap, is the following:
You sit in front of a number line and want to say
"I turn to face the 3".
Could this theoretically be translated as {mi carna fo li ci}?
(I know there are better ways of saying this. I'm just looking for an
edge case of the Robins definition)
Because if it can, then we got a sentence with two rather different meanings:
- I turn to face the 3
- I turn around three times
mu'o
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