From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Thu Sep 18 15:25:11 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41901.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.152]) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 1A07Cp-0005dU-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:24:55 -0700 Message-ID: <20030918222424.23747.qmail@web41901.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.69.6.41] by web41901.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:24:24 PDT Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:24:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: Grammar question. To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20030918220511.GN26715@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 6241 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > In this sentence: > > le ckilu be le za'i le ni bilma bi'o mabla cu ckini le ni kecti > bi'o xebni > > Why can the cu be replaced with ku but not vau or kei? Because neither {vau} nor {kei} will close {le ni bilma bi'o mabla}. You will get {ni bilma bi'o mabla vau kei} as a seltau to tertau {ckini}. (I don't think there is any case in which a terminator is preferrable to {cu}.) mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com