From: Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>
To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: xorlo meets voi
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:42:23 -0400
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On Saturday 27 June 2009 22:17:54 Stela Selckiku wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Luke Bergen<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now, given xorlo, how does poi/voi work?
>
> Well, "voi" is extremely rarely used.  I occassionally say something
> like "mi nelci lo prenu voi xrula" = "I like people who are flowers."
> So I use it as if it's syntactic sugar for poi+pe'a, basically.  I
> don't know if that's how other people think of it, because I never see
> anyone else say it.  I'm not super attached to my interpretation, if
> someone has a better one. :)

Here's an example of how I'd use it:
—mi ponse le jerbilo
—le moki'a?
—lo ratcu voi xabju lo cantu'a
The gerbil doesn't live in the desert, it lives in his house, but gerbils in 
general live in deserts.

Pierre