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Subject:      Re: self-descriptions?
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>Goran:
>> > What I mean is: "is {dansu kansa coa kansa} a complex selbri"?
>> > It seems to me that it should be.
>> Nooo, that is not grammatical by itself. Imaginary journeys cmavo
>> terminate the preceding sumti. For your excerpt, parser reports problems
>> with selma'o BRIVLA; my sentence (at least, its relevant part) parses as
>> ({le <dansu kansa>} {<co'a kansa> VAU})
>
>That is bad. Contrast {ex young president} with {young ex president},
>for instance.

Fine, use brivla.  Tenses apply to whole bridi.

lojbab