From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Jun 06 12:47:26 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 6 Jun 2001 19:47:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 35051 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 19:47:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 6 Jun 2001 19:47:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 19:47:24 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 157jH1-00052C-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2001 12:47:23 -0700 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:47:23 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] tanru clarification, please. Message-ID: <20010606124723.A7842@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20010606122215.X7842@digitalkingdom.org> <3B1E8730.2010909@reutershealth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B1E8730.2010909@reutershealth.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:40:32PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > 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". That last sentence was deliberately unintelligable, right? So la djan. gleki be fa la djein. be'o nanla is legal. I have very little idea what that would mean, though. John is a boy who is happy like Jane? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/