Re: [engelang] Xorban: Proposal for -k-, -b-

Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:36:42 -0400

Subject: Re: [engelang] Xorban: Proposal for -k-, -b-

To: engelang@yahoogroups.com

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:

The idea that I have would be to maximize argument "parallelism"

When I said "parallelism" here, I must have picked it up unconsciously from And, because I don't know why else I used it. What I intend here is slightly different from what he intends.

light X shines on Y >> A makes light X shine on Y

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(patientive) gscrkmeki "P shines on K"
-> li gsni gscrkmabeki "P shines light on K"
-> la slra gscrkmaki "The sun shines on K"

Should have here:
-> li gsni gscrkmabeki "A shines light on K"

At least one -b- present always makes everything. The patient follows the rightmost -b-.

-b- doesn't make everything, it just makes everything explicit. Without -b-, the first argument follows from the primitive meaning.