Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, May 23, 2003, 19:36
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

Reply

John Cowan <jcowan@...>