Re: [lojban] Tag compounds' semantics

[Ilmen <ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com>]

On 13/04/2014 19:09, Jorge Llambías wrote:

That's somewhat contradictory, which can ve seen more clearly with "va" or "vu":

"near to ... ; there at ...; a medium/small distance from ..."

 "far from ... ; yonder at ... ; a long distance from ..."

"Here/there/yonder at ..." is obviously not the same as "a short/medium/long distance from ..."

In any case CLL dropped the "here/there/yonder at ..." version, and the BPFK has the magnitude version: 

http://www.lojban.org/tiki/BPFK+Section%3A+Distance

As I understand it, {vi} is a tag based on {sepli}; its argument is a sepli2, and not a sepli3.
Otherwise, {vi lo cmalu} would be somewhat redundant, don't you think so? :)

"vi lo cmalu" is somewhat redundant, but "vi lo centre be li ci" is not. :)

.oi ro'e se'i

I didn't know of this BPFK page. Thank you for the link!

Well, thus pu's argument and that of zi aren't of the same type, and {pu zi}'s tags probably can't share the same argument.

I have my answer, thank you. :)

Now the distinctions vi/va/vu and zi/za/zu seem pointless, as you can always say {va lo centre be li ci so'u} or {va lo centre be li ci ku noi cmalu}.

mi'e la .ilmen. mu'o

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