From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Nov 14 16:25:30 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CTUgT-0007vt-UN for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:25:30 -0800 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:25:29 -0800 To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: lo'u poi ke'a le'u Message-ID: <20041115002529.GY22035@chain.digitalkingdom.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 877 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 06:39:37PM +0100, Yann Le Du wrote: > Hello, > > In the lojban tutorial, chapter 9, exercise 7, question 9, would > it be ok to use lo'u poi ke'a le'u instead of lo'u pe le'u in : > .i la djiotis. noi to'e se cinri lenu catlu cu cpedu le nu klama kei le > bevri pe zu'a vo'a > > which would thus become : > > .i la djiotis. noi to'e se cinri lenu catlu cu cpedu lenu klama kei le > bevri poi ke'a zu'a vo'a No, that doesn't parse, because there needs to be a selbri in a poi clause. > By the way, are there situations where poi/noi could not replace pe/ne ? Yes, all of them. Now, you can replace "pe lo broda" with "poi srana lo broda"; those are exactly equivalent, IIRC. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/