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Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 08:28:48 -0400
To: lojban@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [lojban] hope
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At 03:13 PM 06/15/2001 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 6/15/2001 1:46:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
>rob@twcny.rr.com writes:
>> > .a'o mi klama  .i
>> > mi .a'o klama  .i
>> > mi klama .a'o  .i
>> >
>> > .a'o du'u mi klama
>>
>>To be really picky, "a'o" applies to the entire text there (because it
>>occurred
>>at the beginning of the text) and the other ones are redundant. There would
>>need to be a .i before the first .a'o.
>
>Well, to be really really picky (not the best thing to do with a poet, by the
>way) an initial {.i} would be improper, since there is no preceding sentence
>({.i} does not begin a sentence, it continues a discourse).

Except that .i is legal at the beginning of a discourse (we built it into 
the grammar).  Partly because some discourses are implicit continuations of 
others, and partly because it resolved some scope issues like this one.

lojbab
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