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Re: [engelang] Xorban: Properties



On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:

3b. Periphrasis.  le je li fgri mplike glreki plkeka'a.  "The hot thing instantiated by the fire is pleasant to me" makes it clear that it's the hotness that is pleasant.

Correcting for an error, that should have been:
le je li fgri mplike glre plkeka'a

If we insist on making the property/class distinction in the x2 of mpl, then it could be:

le je li fgri mplike li glri kmeki plkeka'a
"The fire-instantiated property of hot things is pleasant to me."
"The fire's hotness is pleasant to me."

That's verbose, but that does seem to be the right logical form.  In Lojban:

.i lo se mupli be lo fagri be'o je ka glare cu pluka mi


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