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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