Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> Right, sorry, wrong parent.  What I meant was this:
>
> We have two bridi:  "X rorci do Y" and "X bruna Y", where the
> two X'es each refer to the same individual, ditto for the two Y's.
> We don't have cmene for X and Y, so we need to use one of the
> two bridi to identify the X and Y meant, then plug them into the
> second bridi.  It just seems like this should be doable without
> repeating either brivla, recasting, or losing precision, but
> I don't know enough to know how. :)
Use "da" and "de" for your X and Y:

da rorci do de .ije da bruna de

[There exist X and Y such-that] X begets/bears you with Y and X
is-the-brother-of Y.

That's why we call it a *logical* language.

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