I very like a perfectness of digits's order (0, 1, 2... 9). In this order, I always know where I am: left-right, more-less... etc. When I am trying to define where I am in tp, I am confused: "li pi", "pi X". But, the most hard for me is: to divide a semantic field on two parts between "pi" and "tan".Though, guess, I have some progress in key words for lon: "is placed (located, planted)" or "have placed (located, planted)". For example, "sewi li lon e jan". Here "lon" means: Lord have placed Adam (in the Garden of Eden). Contrary, "sewi li tan e jan" means: Lord have expulsed Adam from Eden. I know a variant where "lon" means "create". But, for me "lon"-"tan" is an undivided pair. In my member "Lord was working ("pali", creating the World) six days and one day he was "lape". So, "sewi li pali (have created) e jan". Here, I was talking about "lon" in a verb slot. "li lon" (be located), "li lon e" (have located).
If to say about "lon" in a noun slot. "Tomo pi lon lete" -- House was located on a frozen place. Though, in the cartoon "Frozen", the house was grown
from the frozen
place -- "tomo
pi tan lete". Of course "
X pi Y" is "noun pi noun". Therefore, "pi Y" (pi lon, pi tan) make substantivation (nominalization). That is, a verb "to place" (to locate, to plant) becomes substantivated -- a noun "a placed" (a located, a planted), as the word "Frozen" is a substantivated name from a verb "to freeze".
Why not simply "tomo lon lete", "house in the cold"? Nothing in the Official Book seems to prohibit this.
Here, we have a templet "
X lon Y". Now we may insert different words instead X, Y, and to compare them:
- "jan lon telo" (man at-in water) -- I imagine a situation where someone is jumping into water
- "ma Atalantis lon telo" (Atlantis at-in water) -- I see how the Atlantis goes under water
- "kasi lon ma" (a plant at-in soil) -- I have planted a flower (I have a planted flower)
And, the most significant example, for me, is "jan lon len" (a man located at-in-inside the clothes). I see in the "lon" only the substantivated (verb-adjective) name. Of course, we should analyze this templet more deep. A perfect solution I see in that: to find out key words for all "mediators": la, lon, pi, tan. If you have some ideas about keys for these words, guess, it willl be very interesting for all to know them.