From cowan  Sat Mar  6 22:45:33 2010
Subject: Re: RET: left factoring
To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu (Lojban List)
From: cowan
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 16:31:19 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199512152016.PAA07930@locke.ccil.org> from "Jorge Llambias" at Dec 15, 95 02:59:56 pm
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mi joi la xorxes. cusku be di'e casnu

> > The question of what happens to logical connectives within selbri
> >
> > 6)      le citka be le mlatu .e le gerku cu zvati le kumfa
> >
> > is still open, I think.
> 
> I don't think that there can be much doubt.
> 
>         le citka be le mlatu e le gerku
> 
> can be expressed as:
> 
>         ro da voi ke'a citka le mlatu e le gerku
> 
> which in turn is:
> 
>         ro da voi ge ke'a citka le mlatu gi ke'a citka le gerku
> 
> You cannot expand it out in the outer bridi. The connector {.e}
> is connecting sumti of {citka}. It is not connecting sumti of {zvati}.

On consideration, and a phonecon with lojbab, I now agree that this
is correct (contra {la daryl.}).

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