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Re: [lojban] cmevla as a class of brivla
la .van. cu cusku di'e
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 02:20:21PM +0200, selpa'i wrote:
la .lojbab. cu cusku di'e
But that isn't the case for Lojban.
You seem to be alone in thinking that (see other people's responses).
Hold it right there. He's definitely not. It's just that some people
who produce most noise - not judging whether this is good or bad - on this list
oppose it. That doesn't mean nobody else has the same opinion.
Then they should speak up and add to the discussion. If, in discussion
X, something gets decided, then person Y that never cared to participate
in discussion X should not complain about the outcome. In other words,
if you want your opinion to be heard, then let it be heard. Otherwise it
can be asumed you don't have an opinion or don't have an interest in the
outcome of the discussion.
I also assume most people don't care at all wondering why there's so much fuss
over this.
But the accepted definition of {la} is:
la broda == lo selcme be zo broda
No, it is not. The last "accepted" "definition" of {la} is in xorlo which states
la [PA] broda - zo'e noi lu [PA] broda li'u cmene ke'a mi
I'm not sure that is the same thing.
That's the same definition, just expanded.
lo broda = zo'e noi broda
la broda = lo selcme be zo broda = zo'e noi ke'a selcme zo broda
At least the full structure of the subsentence
includes {zo'e}s, so you can't get around them at all levels.
The {lo}-version also has {zo'e}:
lo selcme = lo selcme be zo'e bei zo'e
There is no difference.
Another rather simple observation: Whether or not {la selpa'i}
is decided to have some semantic connection to {prami}, you're not able to make
people ignore connotations of the word you're uttering.
Psychological fact (if such things even exist).
Therefore, if I read {la tsani}, I will think of the person AND I will think
of sky. Same for {selpa'i}. So if you don't want me to think of "beloved"
when I read about you, pick a different name.
Connotation is not outlawed, but {la} only denotes. I don't mind if you
get reminded of the brivla {selpa'i} when you see {la selpa'i}, but you
should mainly think of me or someone else that goes by that name. {la
tsani} has nothing to do with skies, and if you cannot ignore the gismu
meaning, then that's your problem of reading too much into names. I
think of Jacob Errington, not of the sky, when I see {la tsani}.
mu'o mi'e la selpa'i
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