Re: [lojban] Please, the best explanation of {le} vs. {lo}

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

la .pycyn. cu cusku di'e
> "selbri tag"?  not CLL,

The concept (though maybe not the term) is CLL. Most occurences of 
tenses for example use selbri tags: {mi pu klama} has a selbri tag which 
(implicitly) tags {zo'e}. It means "Before zo'e, I go".

> but, that aside, what does it means: "they are
> cute (to me) (in some respect) like (something or other)"  "sorta cute?"

"Dogs are _so_ cute."

{tai} compares, like English "so". In this case, what it compares the 
bridi to is left up to context.

> Problem was that I couldn't easily get from "young beautiful" to "cute":
> "young" fits, "beautiful" not so much.  But then, I was never a fan of
> compositional definitions anyhow, so I'll stick with what I said.

It's not easy to find a better lujvo. Compositionality only gets one so far.

> But the explanation according to which Dog is what {lo gerku} really
> means is much more complicated (not to mention based on more implausible
> assumptions) than the perfectly straightforward one, even in its
> mathematical form.

Could be, but different people think in different ways. What seems 
complicated to one person might seem more intuitive to another, and vice 
versa.

mu'o mi'e la selpa'i

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