[lojban-beginners] Re: la jufra karni

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Friday 29 February 2008 23:35, Liam Dalton wrote:
> >  If a man's
> > brains were in his heels, were he not in danger of kibes?
[...]
> The sentence should begin {ganai da'i}; {gi} is a coordinating conjunction,
> and needs something to coordinate with. This makes it two bridi, but one
> jufra.

There's also a question there, which makes me doubt about the {ganai...gi...}
construction. Perhaps ge... gi... might be better:

ge da'i lo besna be lo remna cu nenri lo jmati'e gi xu te ckape lo
jmarixmlixai
Both (supposing a man's brains in his heels) and (yes/no? danger of kibes).

With {ganai...gi...} it would seem to say that in case a man's brains are not
in his heels, (or in case no such suposition is made?) there's no need to
answer.

mu'o mi'e xorxes