Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 09:56:10 -0700
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Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: coi lojban.
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From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:53:54AM -0600, c1tk@c1tk.cjb.net wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > > .i pe'u nuzba le srera ko mi
> > The {pe'u} gobbles up the {nuzba} so you get four isolated sumti
> > in that sentence: {pe'u nuzba} {le srera} {ko} {mi}, without a
> > selbri. I think you need either a {do'u} after the {pe'u} to
> > close off the vocative, or add an addressee (e.g. {rodo}). Also,
> > {le srera} is the maker of the mistake... though I'm not sure
> > whether {lo selsre} or {lo nunsre} is better for "the mistake".
> 
> Thanks for the corrections. I guess I still have a long way to go
> in understand the Lojban sentence structure. Is there any place I
> can find a complete description of all the syntactic rules
> (including word formation rules) for Lojban?

The word formation rules are about the only *syntactic* rules Lojban
has.

http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter4.html

-Robin

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