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

[Alex Martini <alexjm@umich.edu>]

{le la lojban. ku tavla} doesn't work because KU terminates words in  
selma'o LE, which doesn't include {la} -- that's in LA which doesn't  
have a terminator. I believe this is actually why pauses are required  
after cmene, otherwise you wouldn't know when they ended.

See the CLL handy table of terminators at the bottom of this page:

http://lojban.org/tiki/tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=179#s17

mu'omi'e .aleks.
On Sep 20, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Michael wrote:

> 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).