Return-Path: <@segate.sunet.se:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET> Received: from segate.sunet.se by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0ssTPz-0000ZLC; Tue, 12 Sep 95 14:22 EET DST Message-Id: Received: from segate.sunet.se by segate.sunet.se (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id 3DB80AC0 ; Tue, 12 Sep 1995 13:22:15 +0200 Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 20:28:31 +0100 Reply-To: ucleaar Sender: Lojban list From: ucleaar Subject: afterthought conn within NU? X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 658 Lines: 13 While listening to the Nicholas Tapes (just got to Goran singing the Lojbo-Croat anthem amidst a drunken revel), among much fascinating stuff I came across Nik telling Ivan that you can't do afterthought bridi connectives within a NU clause. Is this true? I certainly don't know how to do it, but I'd always assumed that that was because I don't know how to do most things Lojban is capable of. Nik says to Ivan that the solution is to insert a {kei} plus sumti conn (i.e., I presume, {le nu .... kei e le nu...}) but that quite obviously distorts the semantics (so much so that I conclude I misunderstood the discussion due to poor audio quality). --- And