Received: from mail-qc0-f189.google.com ([209.85.216.189]:55712) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SzCYZ-00059l-24; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:08:43 -0700 Received: by qcac11 with SMTP id c11sf1253896qca.16 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:08:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=rhNDN2kRGGwqcJYK/8cy4BUDymPiUPX4J6Gkh2hIpjk=; b=PQtvC6lEt2Zj0zey6KyqmKOxlJ7HcX+decOZiWm6g1ahkJmqWc0JdKSigvStA6b15r nmEMhtOZKUDCbNAji8a2UIzTLXzcM7NI/kcRcDizY2szaKE6XsqSX4k5kXEZXw4hubpP cIC/2l4pvxpCX3XApYn2ZJk5mjJfDaPKo8qMw= Received: by 10.52.37.8 with SMTP id u8mr2360728vdj.18.1344456506930; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:08:26 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.52.36.237 with SMTP id t13ls1699189vdj.3.gmail; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:08:26 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.34.9 with SMTP id v9mr2349129vdi.9.1344456506245; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by w8g2000vbx.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:08:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201208062302.06087.phma@phma.optus.nu> <201208070002.10472.phma@phma.optus.nu> <790b043f-085d-479d-98ab-5dbe51bf04b6@j28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <5f3c1611-8497-46d7-bc2c-34cfead5d0c5@j11g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> <50216ED9.5050608@plasmatix.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.151 Chrome/18.0.1025.151 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <87c960f9-669f-4bae-92fd-aee758f0c87f@w8g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: sedu'u and ko From: ianek To: Lojban Beginners X-Original-Sender: janek37@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: ls.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of janek37@gmail.com designates internal as permitted sender) smtp.mail=janek37@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com; contact lojban-beginners+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 300742228892 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / Content-Length: 2531 Another argument: NU clauses, according to formal grammar, can be joined with connectives. So {nu je du'u broda} is correct. On the other hand {nu je se du'u broda} is not. Of course {se nu je du'u broda} is perfectly grammatical (with undefined meaning), because {se} acts on the abstraction. mu'o mi'e ianek On 8 Sie, 20:45, Jacob Errington wrote: > On 8 August 2012 07:20, Efrain Caro wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Jonathan Jones wrote: > > > Really? Then why do they ALL have place tags in their definition? > > > > du'u abstractor: predication/bridi abstractor; x1 is predication [bridi] > > > expressed in sentence x2. > > > Jonathan, you are obviously a more knowledgeable person on matters of > > Lojban than myself; so pardon me whether I'm asking a stupid question. > > > I want to ask why those definitions contain *[bridi]* in their > > definitions. By themselves, I assume they don't. I must assume thus > > that the definition refers to a complete abstraction and not the > > abstractor by itself. How am I wrong? Does any abstractor form an > > abstraction all by itself? If so, what {lo se du'u kei} would mean? > > Does it mean {lo se du'u co'e kei}? Or is it illegal? > > > Please, explain. > > > mu'o mi'e betsemes > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Lojban Beginners" group. > > To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en. > > NU produces a selbri and a selbri contains by definition a place structure. > However, NU *by themselves* don't have a place structure. The selbri that > they produce does. The distinction is subtle, but it does exist. Therefore, > SE do not apply to NU proper. They apply to selbri (and connectives and > tags). > > NU cannot be empty: the parse *will* fail. That is to say that {lo du'u > kei} is not grammatical. > > mu'o mi'e la tsani -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners?hl=en.