Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives

From: "Jorge Llambias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:20:55 GMT

la aulun cusku di'e

>.i le botpi be lo xunre vanju se pu spofu

{se} goes after the tense, but in this case you don't
want {se}, right?

Also, that means that the bottle was broken in the past
(maybe by now it has been fixed). Do you mean that, or do
you mean that it is now broken {ca spofu}, or that it
broke in the past {pu porpi}?

>.i .oi mi na ba pinxe le
>selpofbo'i

That is fine. But don't tell me that {le na ba se pinxe
be do cu se botpi}, which would be confusing, even though
you could weasel out of it by talking of potentialities.

co'o mi'e xorxes

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