Re: [lojban] Re: No gismu for Difference

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

Sorry to add, but I think this problem of whether truth-functionally equivalent selbri whose connotation seems significantly different is an important one, and one we should probably try and formulate a general response to. Having some brivla with specialized connotation (dilcu vs. selpilji, mu'a) and not others feels rather sloppy.

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com> wrote:

Does that also mean that we need two separate gismu for "to buy" and "to sell"?

This is a good question. I considered the possibility of wanting to have this since "sell" is somewhat of an agentive verb in English (sure, a grocery store selling something isn't particularly agentive, but a car salesman selling something is), which if {te vecnu} is really "buy" rather than "is sold" isn't reflected in the semantics of {vecnu}.

At any rate, this is a marked inconsistency either way; if {selsumji} is adequate for subtraction then {selpilji} is adequate for division.

mi'e la latro'a mu'o

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