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[lojban-beginners] Re: Assistance in studying Lojban required. Some-one who would like to converse in Lojban with newbie is wanted.



On 9/19/06, Michael Turniansky <turnip@bcpl.net> wrote:


Michael wrote:

>
> .i mi cpedu lenu mi penmi le la lojban. tavla
>

  Does this parse properly without a ku after lojban because "tavla"
can't be part of a cmevla sequence?
 (i.e. if we had said ".. le le lojbo tavla" that wouldn't be
grammatical, we'd need "le le lojbo ku tavla")

Well I don't see any problem. "le le lojbo tavla" would be ambigous
because you've
got two gismu that run together and form a tanru. But "le la lojban.
tavla" is quite clear.
You've got the cmene "lojban" and "tavla" the gismu. They shouldn't
form a tanru.
I tested the "ku" form and the "ku"-less one in jboski and my
formulation gave proper result, where the "ku" form didn't parse
(hmm... dunno why).