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Re: Poetic translation (was: ULT)

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry@...>
Date:Thursday, June 3, 1999, 20:31
On 1 Jun 99, at 20:13, John Cowan wrote:

> Jim Henry wrote: > > > Mi logxas en urbo. > > I live in a city. > > So "Mi logxas en urbon" is semantically ill-formed, because > "living in" is not a motion relationship?
Right.
> > > Mi iras en urbon. > > I go in city-TO = I go into a city. > > So "Mi iras en urbo" means "I go (from point A to point B) within > a city"?
Right again. Jim Henry III Jim.Henry@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~jim.henry/gzb/gzb.htm *gjax zaxnq-box baxm-box goq.