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Re: [lojban] Baby words: "into", as in "into the toilet".
la .camgusmi. cu cusku di'e
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:15:22PM +0100, selpa'i wrote:
These two can be combined, to make the first one a little more
precise:
pincyvi'i fa'a ne'i lo vimstizu
pee towards the inside of the toilet
I was going to say that fa'a doesn't work, but you're right; {fa'a}
is only about *facing* of the speaker, not about motion or anything.
Facing of the event, not the speaker.
But doesn't {fa'a ne'i lo vimstizu} have an imaginary journey of
the speaker facing and then entering the toilet?
There is no movement indicated here, only orientation and location.
fa'a combines with other FAhA to make compounds much like the mo'i FAhA
compounds, but indicating orientation towards that FAhA; fa'a ne'i means
"facing the inside".
When this is not enough, there are other options — I'll list some
that first come to mind below, I'm sure there are many more
options.
It might sound funny, but maybe {renro} isn't too bad? At least it
has a destination place.
If we're going to do that, I prefer cecla! :D
I was going to suggest that, but then didn't. .u'i
mu'o mi'e la selpa'i
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