Re: [lojban] Tag compounds' semantics

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

On 14/04/2014 06:29, Gleki Arxokuna wrote:
> This example happens in L4B and is not on the Errata page.
> I understood {ko'a sanli ri'u vi la meiris.}  as "He stands to the 
> right of me near Mary"
> whereas
> {ko'a sanli ri'u je vi la meiris.}  would mean "He stands just to the 
> right of Mary", the meaning that L4B showed in the English sentence.
>
> http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less6space.html <http://www.tlg.uci.edu/%7Eopoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less6space.html>

Well, as {vi}'s argument is a space distance, I guess that {ko'a sanli 
ri'u je vi la .meiris.} means "He stands on the right of Mary and apart 
from [something] by a short distance equivalent to [the space occupied 
by Mary?].".
Correct me if I'm wrong. :)

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