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Re: [lojban] Re: tersmu 0.2
On 22/10/2014 02:22, Martin Bays wrote:
} {fi'o} is maybe a little too vague for your purpose; I'd suggest {broda
} xoi <http://jbovlaste.lojban.org/dict/xoi> ke'a ca'e du fo'a} which
} would be semantically equivalent to {lo du'u broda ku ca'e du fo'a}, if
} I'm not mistaken.
Is {broda xoi xo'i [tag] ke'a} not equivalent to {[tag] broda}?
Not really. {fi'o broda xy} has a rather vague semantic, it's not clear
how the bridi is related to the fact/event of "xy broda". Often the
bridi goes in some abstraction place of the fi'o-predicate (like with
{ca}, {ki'u}...), but that's not always the case: {ka'a} is based on
{fi'o klama}, and {klama} has no abstraction sumti place where the main
bridi could go. Arguably the bridi could go into klama2 or klama3, but
that doesn't seem to be the intended meaning when using {ka'a}.
I'd interpret {broda se ka'a xy} as {broda xoi fasnu fa ke'a jo'u lo nu
xy se klama} ~= {fasnu fa lo nu broda jo'u lo nu xy se klama}, or
something like this.
Therefore I wouldn't say that {broda se ka'a do} = {broda xoi ke'a klama
do}, which means "it's brodaing, which is coming to you" (that's
probably not the intended meaning).
However I think {fi'o xo'i TAG} = {TAG}, by definition. {xo'i}'s purpose
is to allow using directly the predicates that are underlying sumtcita
whose associated predicate hasn't any Lojban predicate word (e.g.
{pu'i}, {nu'o}, {za'o} and the like).
However I'm not fond of {xo'i}, I'd rather prefer the missing sumtcita
predicates to be given a real predicate word and be done with it. :)
mu'o mi'e la .ilmen.
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