[lojban-beginners] Re: Moon River

[Adam COOPER <adamgarrigus@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:24:16 -0500, Matt Arnold <mattarn@123.net> wrote:
> Thank you. {doi la lunra poi rirxe} has brevity that the last example lacked.
> But is it acceptable to nest relative clauses as the following does?
> doi la lunra poi rirxe
> noi se minli ganra
> "Oh 'moon', specifically such that it is a river,
> which incidentally is number-of-distance-units-type-of being broad"
> Is the last clause referring to the addressee or the river, and does it make a difference?
> Should I use {po'u rirxe}?
> -epkat

You can link relative clauses to the same sumti with {zi'e}. but I
don't think restrictive relative clauses are the way to go here, as
the song doesn't postulate that of all the things called Moon, it is
referring to the one that is a wide river, so...

doi la lunra noi rirxe gi'e *minli li za'u pa fo lo ni ganra

I reckon I got that last bit wrong. mu'o mi'e .adam.