Re: [lojban] strange behaviour of {cortu}

[Felipe Gonçalves Assis <felipeg.assis@gmail.com>]

On 9 February 2013 13:50, la gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Saturday, February 9, 2013 6:21:29 PM UTC+4, .asiz. wrote:
>>
>> I still don't see the problem. And, while I agree with most of tsani's
>> stance on use
>> of abstractions, I think he went too far here. The locus of pain IS a
>> concrete object,
>> and the fact that it is usually described with a part-whole relation
>> doesn't mean that
>> it has to be always like that. Consider
>>   {mi cortu lo xunre}
>>
>
> Well, he said he was semi-serious. Next, IMO this is not lojban but a
> dialect of it. Lastly, this shows how this problem could be solved.
>

Again, I don't see the problem. Restricting cortu2 to involve a part-of-body
relation would be a problem. The current {mi cortu lo xunre}, {mi cortu ti},
{mi cortu lo se janli} wouldn't be easily expressible, just to mention the
first few that come up to my mind.

> I can't say that I like such solution, it's a bit awkward but shows the
> idea.
>

Non-problem, non-solution.

mu'o
mi'e .asiz.

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