Re: [lojban] strange behaviour of {cortu}

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Thursday, February 07, 2013 21:18:13 la gleki wrote:
> Many are speaking these days about internal place structure of brivla
> (relations between djuno2 and djuno3 is one example) which has been
> probably inspired by gua\spi.
> 
> I just found another example, a little more interesting.
> 
> {cortu} x1 hurts/feels pain/hurt at locus x2.
> 
> What this brivla should really look like is
> {ko'a cortu lo broda be vo'a}
> e.g.
> {mi cortu lo stedu be mi}
> {mi cortu lo tuple be mi}
> 
> But if we remove one of {mi} in any example this won't lead to any
> ambiguity. Indeed, where can i feel pain if not in some part of me?
> Of course such technologies as described in Avatar film might raise this
> question again but even then the avatar controlled by you would be a part
> of your double body.

This is called a twiddler, as "mi cortu lo birka be do" is nonsensical in the 
same way that "I twiddle your thumbs" is. Similarly:
.i mi darxi do lo birka be fo'a lo trixe be ko'a
.i mi sanli lo loldi lo jamfu be do
See http://kith.org/logos/words/lower/t.html .

Pierre
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