[lojban-beginners] Re: ...to say 'coi'

["la cuncuxnas." <thatskotkid@gmail.com>]

I don't really know whether it overwrites or not.  I like to think
of it as a sneaky way of saying two things are happening at once, but
only because that makes dialogue sound a lot better when you're writing
in Lojban.  {lu coi rodo li'u se cusku la cuncuxnas. fa lu .i mi
djica lenu do sidju mi li'u} just sounds better to me than having two
separate sentences with two separate instances of {cusku}.  Come
to think of it, how is dialogue usually done in Lojban writing?

mu'omi'e cuncuxnas.

On 8/22/05, HeliodoR <exitconsole@gmail.com> wrote:

Something I wonder, though, is what happens in cases like this: {fe la
alis. cukta fa ti la lu,es. carol.}. Does the third sumti fit into the
third place of cukta, since the second place is already filled earlier
in the sentence? (Of course, to really do this you'd just do {se
cukta}, but I'm sure there are examples where this could be useful. Or
speakers that hate using conversion cmavo.)

 

"{carol.}" is {kerol.}, actually. :)

My humble opinion is, though it might sound silly, that it overwrites (?) the previous argument.

Thus You could correct Your sentence by the second value getting to that sumti place.

Like "Tom... oh, no: actually Martin won the race!", for example, in which case You would hop back to x1 by putting a {fa}.

It'd be logical, not?

 

mi'e .xili,odor.