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Re: [lojban] Re: tersmu 0.2




On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Martin Bays <mbays@sdf.org> wrote:

> >     ca ro nu mi xagji kei mi klama lo zarci .e ba bo lo zdani
> >     -> ca ro nu mi xagji kei ko'a fasnu .i ko'a nu ge ko'e fasnu gi ko'i
> > fasnu
> >         .i ko'i nu ko'o balvi ko'e .i ko'e nu mi klama lo zarci
> >         .i ko'o nu mi klama lo zdani


But however you want to describe it, there's an element of co-ordination
between the {ko'e fasnu} and the {ko'o balvi ko'e} which I believe is
a crucial part of the semantics of the original sentence, but which
seems to get lost in your kind-based rewriting.

Isn't that provided by "ca ro nu mi xagji" though? The claim is that at each of these times not just that both ko'e fasnu and lo nu ko'o balvi ko'e cu fasnu, but lo nu ge ko'e fasnu gi ko'o balvi ko'e cu fasnu.

Depending on how things work, maybe it could be a matter of making the
translation be:
    ca ro nu mi xagji kei lo nu mi klama lo zarci kei fasnu je se balvi
    be lo nu mi klama lo zdani
(where again we need to add, and can't seem to in lojban, that the {lo
nu}s are getting kinds)?

I'm thinking that using {je} there be different from using {gi'e} - if
ko'a is the kind of broda(x), then
{ko'a brodi je brodu} ~~ {su'o da poi broda cu brodi je brodu}
{ko'a brodi gi'e brodu} ~~ {su'o da poi broda cu brodi .i je su'o da poi
    broda cu brodu}
(where I don't know exactly what the relation between left and right is,
but probably at least right implies left).

And pressumably the kind of broda(x) cannot instantiate broda(x), otherwise "ko'a brodi gi'e brodu" would directly imply "su'o da poi broda cu brodi gi'e brodu", so the left and the right correspond to two different universes of discourse.

I think "je" even in tanru has been taken to be ordinary logical conjunction (although it gets weird with non-unary predicates), but maybe tanru "jo'u" or "joi"?

Is "lo nu ko'a broda gi'e brode cu fasnu" equivalent to "lo nu ko'a broda cu fasnu ,i je lo nu ko'a brode cu fasnu", or does having the conjunction describing the one event have some significance? Any implicit additional tense info would not seem to cary from left to right:

"lo nu [tense-operator-X] ko'a broda gi'e brode cu fasnu" is not necessarily equivalent to "lo nu [tense-operator-X] ko'a broda cu fasnu ,i je lo nu [tense-operator-X] ko'a brode cu fasnu". 

> Or how do you interpret "ca ro nu mi xagji kei mi mi ctigau"? Is there
> any indication that the time-slice of "mi" witnessing the first "mi"
> is the same time-slice of "mi" witnessing the second "mi" of "mi mi
> ctigau"?

I'm not sure what you're getting at. The times are (roughly) the same,
by the semantics of {ca}, so yes they're (roughly) the same time-slices.
But no extra indication of that is required. I suppose one has to use
that future-me can't be hungry now.

But I don't see why the same argument that holds for time slices wouldn't hold for event instances.  If you read the original sentence as allowing for the possibility that when I'm hungry I may go many times to the market, but at least one of those times has to be followed by a time of me going home, then I see your point, but the way I read it there's just one relevant instance of going to the market and then going home for each time I'm hungry. I think to get your reading I would have to add an explicit "at least once" somewhere.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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