Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 02:35:16PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > I don't know much Lojban, but is there some way of referring back to
> > "the same sumti that was in the Nth place of the previous bridi"
> > without having to repeat the brivla?  If so, it seems that you could
> > use "lo rorci do cu bruna [previous x1]".
>
> I could, except that "lo rorci" and "lo te rorci" are different.  If they
> were the same (implying that you had only one genetic parent), then
> "vo'a" would be the Right Thing.
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. :)

Thanks.

-Mark

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