From cowan@ccil.org Sat Jun 03 12:07:09 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27658 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2000 19:07:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Jun 2000 19:07:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta3 with SMTP; 3 Jun 2000 19:07:08 -0000 Received: (from cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA05022; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 15:33:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006031933.PAA05022@locke.ccil.org> Subject: Re: [lojban] Lo ca nolraitru be le Fasygu'e To: phma@oltronics.net (Pierre Abbat) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 100 15:33:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@egroups.com In-Reply-To: <0006030023200C.01359@neofelis> from "Pierre Abbat" at Jun 3, 0 00:18:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat scripsit: > > In example 4.15, "lo ca nolraitru be le fasygu'e cu krecau", you're talking > about someone who is really the king, of what you are calling France. Is it > possible to call some other country, which does have a king, France, and thus > make a truth? Well, I suppose so if it were a francophone country. The "fra-" rafsi refers to the concept "French" (in culture, language, or what have you), so in principle "fasygu'e" might refer to any "French" nation. But there is not the same sort of flexibility as with names. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org Yes, I know the message date is bogus. I can't help it. --me, on far too many occasions