From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] la orestis...grammar question
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:54:05 -0500
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On Saturday 13 February 2010 00:16:48 Ian Johnson wrote:
> Simple enough: is this grammatically correct, or am I missing something?
>
> Note: Orestiad spoilers.
>
> la .orestis. catra le vo'a mamta mu'i lonu vo'e catra le vo'a patfu
>
> I mainly ask because I'm incorporating a pretty good number of things her=
e,
> so it seems like there's a fair chance something could go wrong. Also,
> might this be a case where {lenu} is appropriate even under (is under the
> right word?) xorlo, since the event is a particular event in the text?

According to both jbofi'e and camxes, it is grammatical, and according to m=
y=20
reading, it means what you intend. {lenu} is appropriate. You could also sa=
y=20
{le mamta be vo'a} and {le patfu be vo'a}, which mean unambiguously the=20
people who gave birth to and/or raised Orestes, rather than the parents of=
=20
someone else whom he was assigned to kill in battle, for instance.

Pierre

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