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On Sunday 06 June 2010 15:48:25 lubekano3 wrote:
> I think I understand the need for an ".i". (I guess I imagined 'title'
> and 'subtitle' as two utterances, which is probably not a good idea.)
> Why, on the other hand, would one drop the "le"? I thought it
> necessary to make clear that this is just 'a' coffee mug, not coffee
> mugs in general.

Lojban is a predicate-oriented language, so it's generally more natural to use 
a bridi for a title, rather than a sumti. In this case, though, it has to be 
a sumti, as "kafkabri po la .ieskos" is ungrammatical.

Pierre
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li ci su'i ze te'a mu bi'e vu'u ci

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