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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: go'i / ri
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One thing that pro-selbri can do that brivla cannot is be modified by "ra'o". 
Consider these sentences:
.i la djan. klama le zdani be vo'a pu le nu la meris. no'a
.i la djan. klama le zdani be vo'a pu le nu la meris. no'a ra'o
"no'a", in a subordinate clause, stands for the clause containing the 
subordinate clause; "vo'a" stands for x1 of the clause it's in. So these 
sentences expand to:
.i la djan. klama le zdani be la djan. pu le nu la meris. klama le zdani be la 
djan.
.i la djan. klama le zdani be la djan. pu le nu la meris. klama le zdani be la 
meris.

Or consider two lovers:
la rul. cusku lu xu do prami mi? li'u la fip .i la fip. dafsku lu go'i li'u .i 
la rul. spusku lu go'i ra'o ji'a li'u
Rul says, "Do you love me?" to Fip. Fip answers "Yes". Rul replies, "I love 
you too."

"ra'o" doesn't make sense for all pro-selbri. "du" can take it, grammatically, 
but "du" doesn't have an antecedent.
*mi du ra'o da'i do .iseni'ibo mi na gasnu ta

mu'omi'e .pier.