Subject: Re: [lojban] termsets

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:23:39 +0000

la xod cusku di'e

> > ze'a lo cacra be li pimu: "for half an hour"
> > ve'a lo kramu be li re: "throughout two acres"
> > za lo mentu be li mu: "five minutes ago" or "five minutes from now"
> > va lo minli be li ci: "three miles away"
>
>This being so straightforward, why do you suppose the Book issues termsets
>as the only way to make magnitudes explicit?

In the case of ve'a and ze'a, I don't think the Book
disagrees with me. In the case of va and za, the Book
has a different interpretation for the tagged sumti:
the origin of the displacement, rather than its
magnitude. This is unnecessary, because the origin
can already be tagged with PU and FAhA.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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