Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla

[selpa'i <seladwa@gmx.de>]

la .betsemes. cu cusku di'e
> Under the merge;
> {lo tatoebas jufra} may be written as {lo jufra pe la tatoebas}.
> {lo karce pe la betsemes} could be written {lo betsemes karce}
>
> But what about {lo karce pe la selpa'i}?
> {lo selpa'i karce}? This would mean something totally different,
> "beloved car", not Selpa'i's car.
>
> Of course, all of them may be rewritten as
> lo la tatoebas ku jufra
> lo la betsemes ku karce
> lo la selpa'i ku karce

I think it's less strange if you consider the conversion formula to be:

lo broda brode ~= lo brode pe lo broda

Now you can plug in any broda you want, one possible candidate being 
{.tato'ebas.}, so that {lo jufra pe *lo* .tato'ebas.}. That way there is 
no difference between a cmevla- and a brivla-seltau. There only seems to 
be one because cmevla are always names, so you don't need the extra step 
of adding {me la} (because this is already part of the cmevla's 
definition).

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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