Re: lujvo morphology

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

Mark wrote:
>>>- la rik. cusku lu mi cliva li'u
>>This is logically the simplest of the four: 'Rick expresses [the words]
>>"mi cliva"'. Its truth depends on whether he does so, and not on whether
>>they are true. It is still not explicit that he utters the words
>>(perhaps he paints them), but it is explicit that it is the quoted jufra
>>that he expresses, not its meaning
>
>I seem to remember that this isn't so.  That "cusku" even with lu/li'u
>quotes implies that the concept is communcated somehow, but not necessarily
>the words.  I could say "le gerku cu cusku lu prami li'u" if the dog only
>expressed the concept of love by wagging its tail, etc.


cusku indeed is not limited to verbal communications.  But "lu li'u" quotes
imply an exact quotation.  I would use "lu'elu" for something that is
effectively the same meaning as the stuff within the quotes.  He is expressing
some type of symbol that indicates that quoted meaning.

lojbab