On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:10 AM, ianek <= span dir=3D"ltr"><janek37@gmail.com= > wrote:

On 20 Mar, 13:23, Jonathan Jones <e= yeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, in that case, I recommend cu, not ku. cu is actually easily elid= able,
> unlike ku. I believe we determined not long ago that in the worst case= , it
> would take a maximum of three terminators in the absence of cu to corr= ectly
> terminate a grammatical structure, and rarely more than one.

What a about {lo nu broda lo nu brode lo nu brodi lo nu brodo ku ku k= u
ku brodu}? Jbofi'e says that it needs at least these four {ku} if we want to avoid {cu}.
I like avoiding {cu}, but only when it doesn't require a string of
more than two terminators.

Maybe the or= iginal meant three distinct terminators. You've used only one, a= lbeit four times.=A0

stevo=A0

mu 'o mi'e ianek

> cu is kind of like an optional half-.i, in that whereas .i implicitly = adds
> whatever terminators are required to end the previous sentence and beg= in a
> new one, cu does the same, but only up the point of the selbri (, and<= br> > please keep in mind that that is where my comparison ends- I doubt the= re
> are any other similarities between cu and .i).
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:38 AM, gleki <gleki.is.my.n...@gmail.com&g= t; wrote:
> > Well. We are preparing a textbook that will teach how to speak lo= jban.
> > But this textbook must use as few words as possible.
> > I wanna get rid of all words that can be replaced by other words.=
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> > It's a textbook for newbies. So don't worry. It will be a= n introduction to
> > Lojban.
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> > On Monday, March 19, 2012 10:49:14 AM UTC+4, stevo wrote:
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> >> Even if it is possible to eliminate {ku} in speech, why would= you want to?
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> >> stevo
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> >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:35 AM, gleki <gleki.is.my.n...@gmail.com>wrote:<= br>
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> >>> Is it possible to completely get rid of {ku} in speech ? = Can we
> >>> rearrange words in extreme cases and use other cmavo like= {kei} and {cu} ?
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