Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Looking down

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:06:47 -0400

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jorge Llambias wrote:
>We all agree that most FAhA are locational. The point we
>were discussing was whether {fa'a} and {to'o} in particular
>followed that pattern as well.
>
>In that case {fa'a le tricu} is more or less meaningless, since
>everywhere in the universe (at least in the connected part) is on
>a line towards the tree, and the same goes for {to'o le tricu}.

I think {le gerku cu bacru fa'a le tricu} means "the dog barks between me and
the tree", or "the dog barks closer to the tree than I am", and {le gerku cu
bacru to'o le tricu} means "the dog barks far from the tree", maybe on a line
through me.

>And how do you indicate the orientation of the event?

How about {le gerku cu bacru ve'ifa'a le tricu}?

phma