[lojban-beginners] {nu penmi} versus {le nunpenmi}

[Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net>]

Robin,
What are the differences in usage and purpose between saying "meeting" as {le nu penmi}, and "meeting" as {le nunpenmi}? The same question applies not only to abstractors but to applications of {se}, {te}, {ve} etc. which I've seen incorporated into compound words as well. The first time I came across it a few years ago I was surprised because I thought only rafsi were used in compound words. Under what circumstances would one just add a tag to a word or coin them into a compound word?
-epkat

lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:07:42AM -0600, Scott Weller wrote:
>> Matt Arnold wrote:
>> Isn't it more of an abbreviation of "(If you come to this event
>> you will) learn how to swear in Lojban"?
>
>You could view it that way, but as an advertisement it is also
>saying that it wants people to do so.
>
>> Of course, I have *no* suggestion for how to express this in
>> Lojban, so maybe I should just shut up <g>.
>
>That's because Causals Are Hard.  Or at least hard to get used to.
>
>Something like:
>
>lo nu do vitke le nunpenmi cu rinka lo nu do binxo co kakne lo nu
>malcku bau la .lojban.
>
>As an aside, ka'erbi'o should probably be in jbovlaste, but I have
>no idea how to gloss it in to English.
>
>-Robin
>
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