From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Jun 06 12:43:42 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 6 Jun 2001 19:43:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 34811 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 19:43:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Jun 2001 19:43:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 19:43:37 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA19150; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:47:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B1E8730.2010909@reutershealth.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:40:32 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010505 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Lee Powell Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] tanru clarification, please. References: <20010606122215.X7842@digitalkingdom.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan Robin Lee Powell wrote: > So, obviously la djan. must be an x1 of nanla for the statement to be > true. > > My question is: does he also need to be an x1 of gleki for the statement > to be true, or is it just assumed by convention that sumti filling the > x1 of the tertau is also filling the x1 of the seltau? The official answer is that there is no official answer: tanru, Humptywise, mean what the speaker wants them to mean. This interpretation (called "parallel" in the Book) is a pretty likely one, but it is not inconceivable that "gleki nanla" means not "boy who is happy" but "boy whose age is happy". -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein