On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:15 AM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:10 AM, ianek <janek37@gmail.com> wrote:

On 20 Mar, 13:23, Jonathan Jones <eyeo...@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 in the absence of cu to correctly
> terminate a grammatical structure, and rarely more than one.

What a about {lo nu broda lo nu brode lo nu brodi lo nu brodo ku ku ku
ku brodu}? Jbofi'e says that it needs at least these four {ku} if we
want to avoid {cu}.
I like avoiding {cu}, but only when it doesn't require a string of
more than two terminators.

Maybe the original meant three distinct terminators. You've used only one, albeit four times.

stevo

mu 'o mi'e ianek

> cu is kind of like an optional half-.i, in that whereas .i implicitly adds
> whatever terminators are required to end the previous sentence and begin a
> new one, cu does the same, but only up the point of the selbri (, and
> please keep in mind that that is where my comparison ends- I doubt there
> are any other similarities between cu and .i).
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:38 AM, gleki <gleki.is.my.n...@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.
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> > It's a textbook for newbies. So don't worry. It will be an introduction to
> > Lojban.
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> > On Monday, March 19, 2012 10:49:14 AM UTC+4, stevo wrote:
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> >> Even if it is possible to eliminate {ku} in speech, why would you want to?
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> >> stevo
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> >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:35 AM, gleki <gleki.is.my.n...@gmail.com>wrote:

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