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perfect facades



>To Jorge & Lojbab:  Imagine a church-facade with no church behind t. In
>English, you can say "that is facade of a church", but in Lojban you
>couldn;t say "ta flira lo malsi", because that says there is a church
>such that that is its facade.  You'd have to say {ta flira lo dahi
>malsi}.

Actually I might call it "lo fe'eco'a malsi" zo'o
"the spatial-initiative of a church" %^)

Or maybe "lo bitmu poi simlu co ckaji loka flira lo malsi"
if I wanted to be accurate.

lojbab