= On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, in that case, I recommend cu, not ku. = cu is actually easily elidable, unlike ku. I believe we determined not long= ago that in the worst case, it would take a maximum of three terminators i= n the absence of cu to correctly terminate a grammatical structure, and rar= ely more than one.

cu is kind of like an optional half-.i, in that whereas .i implicitly a= dds whatever terminators are required to end the previous sentence and begi= n a new one, cu does the same, but only up the point of the selbri (, and p= lease keep in mind that that is where my comparison ends- I doubt there are= any other similarities between cu and .i).

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:38 AM, gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
Well. We are preparing a textbook that will teach how to speak lojban.
= But this textbook must use as few words as possible.
I wanna get = rid of all words that can be replaced by other words.

It's a tex= tbook for newbies. So don't worry. It will be an introduction to Lojban= .

On Monday, March 19, 2012 10:49:14 AM UTC+4, stevo wrote:Even if it is possible to=A0eliminate= =A0{ku} in speech, why would you want to?

stevo

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:35 A= M, gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possible to completely get rid of {ku}= in speech ? Can we rearrange words in extreme cases and use other cmavo li= ke {kei} and {cu} ?

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