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

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

On Monday 24 December 2007 15:07, mungojelly@ixkey.info wrote:
> It seems your confusion is what role the "puzi" is playing.  It's not
> part of a tanru with zo culno; it's tense-tagging the sumti.  You can
> put all sorts of interesting tags and transformations in that
> position.  One of my favorites is that you can put a BAI cmavo, to
> make a sumti which is the sort of thing that would fill that BAI
> place, for instance: "lo bau cusku" -- the language of (an)
> expression, or "lo pi'o gerku" -- the user of a dog (maybe it's a
> seeing eye dog)!

That's {lo jai pi'o gerku} - {lo pi'o gerku} means "a dog with a user". {lo 
jai pu gerku} is also grammatical, according to jbofi'e, and means "a time 
before which something is a dog".

The note on jbovlaste says {ca farvi gau}. The developer of jbovlaste is {le 
ca jai gau farvi}.

Pierre