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From: Pierre Abbat <phma@webjockey.net>
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Subject: [lojban] Re: Bach-Peters sentences
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On Saturday 11 October 2003 09:16, And Rosta wrote:
> John, on another list:
> > Then there are Bach-Peters sentences, like "The pilot that shot at it
> > hit the MIG that chased him", where looking for the referents of "it"
> > and "him" sends you in a closed circle....
>
> So: How to translate into Lojban? With the same referential loop?

le vijysazri poi celre'o fi [?] cu darxi le me my.ibugy. poi jersi ra
Not obvious what "[?]" should be. There is no pronoun that refers to a 
postcedent sumti, as {ra, ri, ru} refer to an antecedent. {la'edi'e} might 
work, but {di'e} etc. usually refer to at least a clause, so the pilot shot 
at the event of the MIG chasing him, which makes no sense.

phma