[lojban-beginners] Re: [brivla + brivla] and [brivla + KOhA]

[turnip <turnip@bcpl.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com> =====
>On 12/19/07, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some pretty much basic questions.
>>
>> I forgot how the following expression is unambiguous:
>>
>> { le puzi culno ca kunti }
>>
>> The given translation is "The one full just a little time ago is now
>> empty", so it is meant to be a complete bridi consisting of the sumti
>> { le puzi culno } and the selbri { ca kunti }. But is it not also
>> possible that the two brivla { culno } and { kunti } make up one
>> sumti, meaning "the full-just-a-little-time-ago-kind-of now-empty
>> one"?
>
>No, tanru units cannot have their own tag (except within ke-ke'e
>brackets). The tense applies to a whole selbri, not to an individual
>tanru unit. You can get the other reading with ke-ke'e:
>
> {le ke puzi culno ke'e ke ca kunti [ke'e]}
>
>That's a single sumti.

  jbofi'e doesn't like it. Does camxes? Can you point me to where in the 
grammar is that construction allowed?  (I would have personally said "le puzi 
culno me lo ca kunti", but then, I like "me" :-D

            --gejyspa