Re: [lojban] nu+roi question

[Ian Johnson <blindbravado@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

Suppose you belong to a fight club that meets every weekend for knockout tournaments where the loser in each match is eliminated and does not go on to fight in the next round. Suppose I'm a fan of yours. Then I can say "I hate when you fight once", because that means you were eliminated in the first round, and as your fan I want you to reach the finals, i.e. I love it when you fight many times.

Perhaps it is more natlang influence than anything else, but such a description feels rather incomplete; I would have trouble taking the meaning you're suggesting from the phrasing you're suggesting.

I also feel like there's some opacity here, because events of you fighting more than once are made up of events of you fighting once. That is, when you're in a fight club and fight more than once, you can just split them up into several events of fighting more than once, each of which you hate, so naturally you should hate the collective. va'i you're sort of opening up the abstractor in a way that you really shouldn't be able to do in order to get the meaning you want.

mi'e la latro'a mu'o

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