Subject: Re: [lojban] le velski

From: Invent Yourself <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:49:27 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Jorge Llambias wrote:

>
> la xod cusku di'e
>
> >Why is skicu4 (the description itself) labelled "a property" in the
> >gi'uste instead of a piece of text?
>
> I guess it is meant to be used somewhat like this:
>
> ko'a skicu ko'e mi le ka melbi
> He described her to me as beautiful.
>
> x4 is a property that x1 attributes to x2. What kind of
> text would you put there?

In this case zo melbi. In general, descriptions are more complex than
simple qualities. An entire book can be a description of the author's time
in the army.

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