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[lojban-beginners] Re: bo

On 12/02/07, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:


{bo} has two functions.



Function 1: It makes a construction bind tighter than it would without bo:
In many of these cases, {bo} also allows a tag to be inserted as a
connective:
What you are thinking of are tags, not connectives. A tag between {i} and
{bo} works as a sentence connective, yes.


I think this is the point that's been giving me trouble.  Allowing the
insertion of a tag doesn't seem to have much to do with asserting
tight binding, and I've been trying to figure out why these tasks fall
to a single word.  Why is there not a different cmavo for 'make this
tag function as a connective'?  Did it just turn out that you
generally want to use {bo} in these cases anyway, so they may as well
be the same word?


Function 2: It makes a cmavo of NAhE work as one of LAhE:



  {na'e bo ko'a} works like {la'e ko'a}


I don't think I've met this function yet.  It sounds confusing though,
since again it's the same word that is used for 'tightest binding'.