Re: Disjunctive compounds (was: left factoring)

[Chris Bogart <cbogart@QUETZAL.COM>]

>la xorxes. cusku di'e
>
>> {lei brife ja canre} logically seems to work, too, but I don't find it
>> very appealing. Maybe it's just that we are not used to such things
>> in natlangs.
>
>Depends on which natlangs.  Ivan says in his paper on noun compounds:
>
># There don't seem to be many languages which have disjunctive noun-noun
># compounds, in which the set of instances of the complex concept is the
># union of the sets of instances of the components, as in

That seems to me like a slightly different thing, although {le} might let
you get away with it.  Japanese has a conjunction "ya" which explicitly does
this: "enpitsu ya pen" means "pencils, pens, and the like".  I don't think
we have the equivalent in Lojban, since {ja} doesn't add "and the like".
                     ____
 Chris Bogart        \  /  http://www.quetzal.com
 Boulder, CO          \/   cbogart@quetzal.com

"Life is strange.  Some people get rich, others eat shit and die.  Maybe a
fat man will feel his heart burst and call it beautiful."
        - Hunter S Thompson