Subject: Re: [lojban] Some comments on Jorge's & And's bits of le spofu fonxa 3moi

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 13:46:04

la and cusku di'e

>Poe: My _manner_ had convinced them.
>Xor: le mi se tarti ba'o birtygau py
>And: My conduct had been verified by them.
>
>"le mi se tarti" is not that great a rendering of "_manner_";
>there should be a "ba'e" in there, and "se tarti" doesn't
>quite mean "manner" (i.e. not what you do but how you do
>it).

Agreed about the {ba'e}. The gi'uste suggests that the x2 of
{tarti} is the manner ("x1 behaves/conducts oneself as/in-manner x2"),
so {se zukte} would be what you do, and {se tarti} how you do it.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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