Re: [lojban] carna, my turn.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:25:36AM +0200, v4hn wrote:
> 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}?

No; that needs to be {me'o ci}.

-Robin

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