Re: [lojban] Baby words: "into", as in "into the toilet".

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

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:52:08AM +0000, tijlan wrote:
[snip]
> Or is there some significant difference between these:
> 
> gau ko lo pinca be do cu nenri lo vimstizu
> lo pinca be ko cu nenri lo vimstizu
> 
> I think not. 

I think you're right.

> So I would prefer the latter that's shorter, and then I would want
> a word to the effect of "moving", say {mo'i}:
> 
> lo pinca be ko [cu] mo'i nenri lo vimstizu
> 
> This, however, says that you be the agent of your pee "being *in*
> a toilet in a moving manner" (perhaps a pee of yours that you for
> whatever reason have to keep in a train's loo, not allowing it to
> be flushed away from the moving container), again not necessarily
> "moving *into* a toilet". More surefooted than {mo'i nenri} would
> be {mo'i ne'i}, which would allow for further simplification:
> 
> pinca ko mo'ine'i lo vimstizu
> 
> That is, you be the agent of your own pee's moving into a toilet.

*nod*  That works well, thanks.

FWIW, what I was wanting further discussion of was specifically
{ko vikmi le vimstizu nenri po'o}

-Robin

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