[lojban-beginners] Re: coi rodo

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Friday 29 September 2006 20:14, Daniel Adamec wrote:
>  Being perhaps overly eager I constructed a rediculously long scentance
> which my brain at this point refuses to translate back into coloquial
> english.
>
> (was not gramatically correct) .i le mi mamta pu cusku lu lenu do tavla mi
> semu'i lenu mi djica lenu do se catra mi zo'o li'u mi
>
> I ran it throught the grammar checker and found that it was 'missing selbri
> at line 1 column 28'. I manipulated the scentance and found that removing
> an element (lenu) I assumed to be nessesary to the construction of the
> scentance let it pass through the checker with no gramatical warnings.
>
>  (Accepted version).i le mi mamta pu cusku lu do tavla mi semu'i lenu mi
> djica lenu do se catra mi zo'o li'u mi
> Any explanations would be appreciated.

Missing a selbri doesn't mean that it's ungrammatical; such sentences occur as 
answers to questions or elliptical sentences (e.g. {do klama ma?} {le 
briju}). Another version that works is:
.i le mi mamta pu cusku lu lenu do tavla mi cu mukti le nu mi djica lenu do se 
catra mi zo'o li'u mi

mu'omi'e pier.