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Hello,

> > .i pe'u nuzba le srera ko mi
> The {pe'u} gobbles up the {nuzba} so you get four isolated sumti in
> that sentence: {pe'u nuzba} {le srera} {ko} {mi}, without a selbri.
> I think you need either a {do'u} after the {pe'u} to close off the
> vocative, or add an addressee (e.g. {rodo}).
> Also, {le srera} is the maker of the mistake... though I'm not sure
> whether {lo selsre} or {lo nunsre} is better for "the mistake".

Thanks for the corrections. I guess I still have a long way to go in
understand the Lojban sentence structure. Is there any place I can find a
complete description of all the syntactic rules (including word formation
rules) for Lojban?

Thanks,
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