[lojban-beginners] Re: omitting zo'e in a compound bridi

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

On 4/25/08, Vid Sintef <picos.picos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I see. {ke} cannot override {gi'e},

{ke} can be used with {gi'e}, but only after the first connectand:

  terms (bridi-tail) gi'e ke (bridi-tail) gi'a (bridi-tail) [ke'e]

But you can't have a SE in front of that {ke}, because it doesn't
group just a tanru, it groups a whole bridi-tail.

>therefore {te} is needed for both
> {dunda} and {lebna} to have {do} as their mutual x3:
>
>  do te dunda le cukta [ku] [vau] gi'e te lebna zo'e [ku] [vau] vau mi

(one [vau] is misplaced, and no {ku} after {zo'e}, it should be:

   do te dunda le cukta [ku] [vau] gi'e te lebna zo'e vau mi [vau]
)

> Now, is this {zo'e} elidable?

No, without {zo'e} it expands to:

 do te dunda le cukta mi .ije do te lebna mi

But you could use {fi mi} and that would put {mi} in the x3 of both
{te dunda} and {te lebna}. Then you can leave {zo'e} out.

mu'o mi'e xorxes