Re: [lojban] vamji

[Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Ilmen <ilmen.pokebip@gmail.com> wrote:

Could somebody enlighten me by providing a couple of example sentences using all of {vamji}'s argument places? (Preferably not for monetary value usages, as {jdima} is a better word for that purpose.)

The x4 is kind of forced, but I understand it as this:

  lo vi cukta cu se vamji lo mutce mi lo nu tadni

  This book is worth a lot to me for studying.

For example, how would you translate «The film is well worth seeing.» in Lojban?

I would say that's an example of so-called "tough movement" in English:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tough_movement

It could be paraphrased as "It is well worth seeing the film." which would go into Lojban as:

     lo nu catlu lo skina cu se vamji lo mutce

Now to raise "lo skina" to the main clause you would need:

    lo skina cu jai se vamji lo mutce fai lo ka catlu ce'u

so the corresponding -able/-ible suffix is as simple as -jaxselva'i  :)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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