Received: from mail-vc0-f190.google.com ([209.85.220.190]:54811) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1XWnk9-0001oI-5v for lojban-beginners-archive@lojban.org; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:40:42 -0700 Received: by mail-vc0-f190.google.com with SMTP id hq11sf1676242vcb.7 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:40:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=rePN8t4BwaoSNQD1ywkvELS1o02cr+EcGCNBvw+r3mg=; b=uRHFw4HQNUcIZYL3CsXdwAS5wgjq2Su2QN6J/Kgb4E2innrOqNXCAsORWi/9eOEOxI 5wRGyfY/dHnACj9kp+3ezgnvepAc2f52ahErdEb/3KNJav8V92dq2BuUc3+Xpcpa3hsl t8VIw9eFo4S+ryOsv+Pso+SAWPDtYbLWdYCyB8X0xDsL2CXlUXvigmRHXj/yffd+PtzZ aav6XBxH5EfIkQ3xx+QmqZ6RDBHQ9c1JtILixKdBUN6yKBlcV5tE35SmzNUWpxRJwXh+ 5nWX6XEoBCVdE7P1KuXDwNhW7sGXALfNckwykY0QCnxkQTmDvcge0I2Kmu8MQlTelwwR 35IA== X-Received: by 10.140.108.97 with SMTP id i88mr22704qgf.8.1411569626645; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:40:26 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.140.36.244 with SMTP id p107ls542211qgp.94.gmail; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:40:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.224.10.199 with SMTP id q7mr5669155qaq.7.1411569625739; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-qg0-x232.google.com (mail-qg0-x232.google.com [2607:f8b0:400d:c04::232]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t6si3232708qcd.0.2014.09.24.07.40.25 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of blindbravado@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:400d:c04::232 as permitted sender) client-ip=2607:f8b0:400d:c04::232; Received: by mail-qg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id q107so5972614qgd.37 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:40:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.67.65 with SMTP id q1mr9577823qai.89.1411569625642; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.30.132 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Sep 2014 07:40:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:40:25 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban-beginners] oi bei From: Ian Johnson To: lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: blindbravado@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of blindbravado@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:400d:c04::232 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=blindbravado@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=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: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c3d2fe1cc0180503d0aa86 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_bar: - Content-Length: 4800 --001a11c3d2fe1cc0180503d0aa86 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 {be} starts a new chain. {bei} continues the current chain. {be'o} terminates the current chain. Technically it is somewhat extraneous, but working the other way would require you to fully terminate the last sumti in the chain, so that a new {be} could only attach to the old one. This could get quite verbose if the previous sumti was complicated. For an artificial example, {mi tavla be* fi lo nu mi'o klama lo zarci kei ku be* fe do}, where be* is this modified {be} you are considering. The {kei ku} cannot be omitted (though {ku ku} would have worked). Compare this to {mi tavla be fi lo nu mi'o klama lo zarci bei fe do}. mi'e la latro'a mu'o On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:34 AM, TR NS wrote: > Why is bei necessary in a be ... be'o construction? Is seems extraneous. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lojban Beginners" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lojban Beginners" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to lojban-beginners+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lojban-beginners@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban-beginners. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. --001a11c3d2fe1cc0180503d0aa86 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
{be} starts a new chain. {bei} continues the current = chain. {be'o} terminates the current chain. Technically it is somewhat = extraneous, but working the other way would require you to fully terminate = the last sumti in the chain, so that a new {be} could only attach to the ol= d one. This could get quite verbose if the previous sumti was complicated.<= br>
For an artificial example, {mi tavla be* fi lo nu mi'o klama lo = zarci kei ku be* fe do}, where be* is this modified {be} you are considerin= g. The {kei ku} cannot be omitted (though {ku ku} would have worked). Compa= re this to {mi tavla be fi lo nu mi'o klama lo zarci bei fe do}.
mi'e la latro'a mu'o

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:34 AM, TR NS <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
Why is bei necessary in a be ... be'o construction? = Is seems extraneous.

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