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Re: perfect facades



Lojbab:
> >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.

zoonai - {lo fee coa malsi} makes excellent sense. It has the
advantage that it doesnAt entail {lo malsi}.

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