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Lojban for Beginners says "...consider how you would say le tamne pe
le ninmu klama 'the woman traveller's cousin' with this kind of
nesting. You could flip it around as le le ninmu klama tamne =97 but
then, how can you tell where the 'possessor' ends and where the
'possessee' begins?"

I wonder why a construct like "le le ninmu klama cu tamne" wouldn't
work, to separate the argument to the first "le" (which is "ninmu
klama"), from the argument to the second "le" (which is "tamne"). Is
the purpose of "cu" not simply to separate two selbri when they are
consecutive arguments, or when one is the argument to another?

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