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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 02:52:02PM -0800, Demian Koller wrote:
> Would someone clarify something for me regarding a sentence? It comes fro=
m=20
> the Lojban for Beginners book, and it's an exercise in terminator elision=
: 'mi=20
> skicu li re boi re lo pendo' Obviously it means 'I describe the number 2 =
to=20
> 2 friends.' Removing the 'boi' ('mi skicu li re re lo pendo'), I come up=
=20
> with the meaning 'I describe the 22 individual friends.' But the book say=
s=20

That would be {mi skicu re re lo pendo}

> the translation without 'boi' would be 'I describe the number 22 to a=20
> friend.' Does the 'li' before 're re' imply a terminator before the 'lo'?

Yes, the term governed by {li} takes up one sumti slot.
And {li} takes the longest following string which matches a number expressi=
on,
which in this case is {re re}.


v4hn

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