From cowan  Sat Mar  6 22:58:06 2010
Subject: Re: self-descriptions?
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From: cowan
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 09:32:50 -0500 (EST)
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la goran. joi la .and. cusku be di'e casnu

> > mi'e goran. .i mi caki nanca lirepapisu'o .i le kerfa .e le kanla vu'o
> > po'e mi manbu'e
> 
> What does {vuo} mean there? I'd have expected {zie}. Or maybe
> {kanlvuo}, ocularly-ukrainian?

It's a very new grammatical construction, which causes a following relative
clause to affect the whole of the (logically or non-logically) compounded
sumti which precedes it, rather than only the immediately preceding term.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.