[lojban-beginners] Re: kabri .i botpi

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

On Tuesday 01 April 2008 17:00, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/1/2008 05:01:28 AM Central Daylight Time,
>
> ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:
> > glass and decanter: {kabri .i botpi}, unless you want to be more
> > specific.
>
> Shouldn't ".i" be changed to ".e" or some other conjunction?
> I though ".i" was to join sentences into longer discourses/utterances.

".e" is ungrammatical here; it joins sumti. "je" and "gi'e" would be wrong; 
they would mean that something is both a cup and a bottle. "jo'u" might be 
right, as would ".ije".

Pierre