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[lojban-beginners] Re: A few questions...



On 7/22/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
Jorge Llambías wrote:
>
> Maybe something like:
>
>            |
>      batci | (fa) le gerku | (fe) le nanmu | (fi) (zo'e) | (fo) (zo'e)
> | va (zo'e)
>      ---------------------------------------------
>            |
>            cu
>
>
> What {va} does here is add an unnumbered place to the
> place structure of {batci}.
>

Really. I thought I was saying "The dog bit that man over there."
How would I say that then?


Hal

>From what I can tell, {le gerku cu batci le nanmu va} says something like "The dog bit the man, some distance away from here," while {le gerku cu batci le va nanmu} comes to "The dog bit the somewhat-distant man."
 
Although, maybe everyone involved in the discussion already had that in mind, and I'm just spouting irrelevant information.

 - cuncuxnas