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Re: loi logji ja na'e logji lasnyvalsi zo'u
- To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Subject: Re: loi logji ja na'e logji lasnyvalsi zo'u
- From: CJ FINE <cbmvax!uunet!bradford.ac.uk!C.J.Fine>
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "I.Alexander.bra0122@UK.CO.ICL.OASIS" at Aug 28, 92 2:50 pm
- Reply-To: CJ FINE <cbmvax!uunet!bradford.ac.uk!C.J.Fine>
- Sender: Lojban list <cbmvax!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!LOJBAN>
Good clear lojban, except for the last part, where I got lost even on
several readings. I think my problems were twofold:
1) I didn't know what to make of "tai", and indeed, looking at your
translation I don't think "mintu ... tai" is what you mean: they're not
'the same by means of', they're 'the same as can be shown by means of'.
2) I don't think you mean 'nu darlu', though I can't find a better one
(to be fair, it's partly me - I missed the 'nu').
I have for a long time been correcting other people's "je" to various
things, including "ja". I'm disturbed by your equivalence of an internal
conjunction and an external disjunction, but I really can't see anything
wrong with it. I *think* it's an artifact of universal quantification.
Incidentally, the picky would prefer "lo pritu jonai xunle", but I'm not
one of them.