krtisfranks wrote:
> gleki wrote:
> > how would you specify motion of two fingers using x3 and x4? maybe
delete
>
> > x3 instead?

How would you specify what each finger is doing in x4? Using ri and "ri
xi re"?

Anyway, it seems to me x4 is just ta'i

Comment #10: Re: when several members in x3?

Curtis W Franks (Tue Mar 22 02:52:19 2016)

gleki wrote: > krtisfranks wrote: > > gleki wrote: > > > how would you specify motion of two fingers using x3 and x4? maybe > delete > > > > > x3 instead? > > How would you specify what each finger is doing in x4? Using ri and "ri > xi re"? > Well, I typically would describe the motion 'as a whole', such as: as a group action (much like masses can have seemingly contradictory properties), distributively (each x3 performs the action described by x4 on its own (possibly in a sequence with the others)), or I would describe the action as being 'atomic' in some sense (the body parts x3 are involved, but it is not really that any one of them is performing an individual role in the action x4; rather, it is the emergent sense that they together create something more that is doing x4 - an example would be that the face or its parts (x3) smile (x4): the entire system organizes in a consorted manner that produces a smile and no individual part really does so (a smile requires the eyes as much as the mouth)). Or, I would use "fa'u". Or, your option might work. Or, I would just mention the action of each body part in the abstraction(s) (if they are used) in x4; like I said, it is a bit redundant and this can (I think: must) happen. > Anyway, it seems to me x4 is just ta'i At least approximately, it seems so.