"Nearly Correct" (was New thread, anyone?)

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Lee Crocker and I had an exchange following on his private mailing to me
on jbidra vs drajbi.  Here are my portions.


>>That leaves two choices:
>>
>>    jbidra j1=d1  d2  d3     j2=d4 , and
>>    drajbi d1=j1  d4=j2  j3  d3
>>
>>Even though the former is simpler (being identical to its
>>tertau in structure--and really unneeded as a lujvo for that
>>reason)
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by "unneeded as a lujvo" based on place structure
>arguments.  jbidra would not mean the same as "drani" even though the
>places are numbered in parallel.  jbidra does notcover every possible
>interpreation of "jbini drani" which is subject to whatever form of
>imaginative
>
>tanru connections one can come up with which still preserve the drani places.
>
>jbidra is a particular kind of jibni drani.
>
>The problem is that there are other valid interpretations of the tanru that
>have potential use.  jibni drani (near-correct) could be contrasted with "far
>co rrect - a kind of correctness>associated with being far from something.
>For the reverse, there is the contrast between a correct-approximation and
>an incorrect approximation which could justify lujvo for those terms.
>
>There are no easy answers, alas.
>
>lojbab

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