tanru specification

[Tommy Kagan]

how does one say

"the girly school"

and then

"the school for girls"

cheers,

a new lojban fan

[mezohe]

2015-12-07 04:51 Tommy Kagan:

> how does one say
> "the girly school"

{lo ckule poi simsa lo nixli}
(just an approximation, because Lojban doesn't (yet) have a word with
the same baggage that "girly" carries)

> and then
> "the school for girls"

{lo ckule be fo lo nixli}

To express a non-obvious meaning of a tanru, you often need to use some
other method, like filling in places or attaching a relative clause.
Usually, if a tanru can be plausibly expanded as the seltau (its x1 or
an abstraction involving it) fitting in some place of the tertau, it
will be understood that way, so for just {lo nixli ckule} without any
unusual context, "school for girls" is a more likely reading than "girly
school".